Quotes of: Civics Keyword

A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.

Michael Leunig

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

David Byrne

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

Charles Evans Hughes

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

Bruce Schneier

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

Salvatore Quasimodo

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

Wole Soyinka

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

Jonathan Sacks

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

Peter Coyote

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.

Sandra Day O'Connor

My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.

Sissy Spacek

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

Rene Cassin

You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.

Jennifer Pahlka

The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.

Josh Fox

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

Michelle Bachelet

Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.'

Donald Bren

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

Jane Fonda

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Arthur Ashe

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

Roger Ebert

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

Vaclav Klaus

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

Allen Weinstein

I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.

Bruce Rauner