Civic Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (C) Quotes

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

- Benito Mussolini

We are working throughout the borough with the community, with elected officials, and civic organizations to foster economic growth as well as support the creation of attractive and affordable housing to neighborhoods and provide the city`s largest borough with an even better future.

- John Young

work closely with other arts organizations, civic and community groups, and local businesses to form alliances and supportive networks.

- Nancy Wilson

I`m a civic busybody and I`ve been blessed with an active career.

- George Takei

As a football team, we`re not looking for any handouts. We`ll band together as a team. We want to go out there and shed a lot of blood, sweat and tears. We want to make our people proud of us. We feel like that is our civic duty.

- Aaron Brooks

This war is just blatantly illegal under international law, ... My civic duty is to live with the victims of war, to speak out against the war, and not only war, but any kind of killing.

- Steve Jacobs

Delaware River Power Squadron is dedicated to boating safety through education and civic activities in several locations in Philadelphia while also serving the boating public throughout southern Pennsylvania, the Delaware River, and the Chesapeake Bay.

- Robert Brady

Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.

- John Ashcroft

Our goal is both to enhance appreciation of one of our greatest leaders and his legacy, but, perhaps more broadly, to stimulate a broader interest in history amongst Americans of all different ages and backgrounds. It`s an opportunity for profound civic renewal.

- Michael Bishop

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

- Donna Brazile

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.

- Ajay Nand

People aren`t as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our `civic duty` to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

- Al Waller

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

- Alan Pardew

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

- Allan Gurganus

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.

- Allison Krauss

We know that if we`re going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we`re going to have to get more people educated to higher levels.

- Alyn McCauley

There`s a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

- Amanda Uhry

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.

- Andrea Cerutti

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

- Andrew Forman

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.

- Andrew Harrington

But the Civic Forum has put me in a very visible position, and I expect that I will be in the parliament after the June elections.

- Andrew Harrington

When Hegel later became a man of influence` he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

- Andrew Krcik

other deplorable events have come to light which have troubled the civic and religious conscience of all and made more difficult a serene and resolute commitment to shared human values.

- Andrew Wheat

I was a journalist doing my job, protecting my source until my source freed me to perform my civic duty to testify.

- Andy Leggio

About every 25 years, people get excited and get on the civic bandwagon. Then they get complacent.

- Anne Roman

We think this new town hall is really a true civic building in the broadest sense of the word. We want it to be part of the life of the community. It`s not going to close at 5.

- Anthony Santomero

I renounce (asylum) for political, civic and patriotic reasons to return immediately to Ecuador and retake power,

- Ashley Mason

Many young families today are two-income families. The time constraint that this puts on families makes it difficult for young leaders to be able to commit to being involved in civic life.

- Barbara Jackson