Civics Quotes - Page 6

• I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college, at the University of Washington. I was a theater major there and got my training. Then after college, I packed up my Honda Civic and kind of fulfilled the cliché of driving down to Los Angeles, and literally, brick by brick - you know, the slow and painful way - I built my career.

  Mariana Klaveno

  College, Class, Careers

  "Stalker’s Mariana Klaveno: Being Healthy is Part of the Job". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to confuse 'civic' and 'civil,' and they believe that everything that is done by citizens is necessarily a good thing because you build a network, an association.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Style, Degrees, Campaigns

  "Civil Engineering". www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• All around the country, individuals are choosing to redefine their lives and the pursuit of happiness in ways much closer to the original notion put forth by our Founding Fathers. Their notion of the "pursuit of happiness" wasn't just about acquiring money and power, but about doing your part to add to the civic happiness of the community.

  Arianna Huffington

  Country, Father, Pursuit Of Happiness

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Loss, Intellectual, World

  A World Split Apart — Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, www.orthodoxytoday.org. June 8, 1978.

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• Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Yield, Togas, Arms

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

  Clay Shirky

  Challenges, Done, Internet

  "Clay Shirky: 'Paywall will underperform - the numbers don't add up'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.

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• I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

  Al Franken

  Engagement, Records, Treasure

  "Putting an End to Secret Campaign Contributions" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2012.

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• The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Jobs, Believe, Writing

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• I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Teacher, School, Government

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• Being the Queen is not all about singing and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.

  Aretha Franklin

  Queens, People, Community

  "On the Phone With Aretha Franklin". Interview with David Malitz, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 22, 2008.

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• When you Google me, you'll find a lot of people don't like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I'm cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there's 100 percent support for that.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Attitude, Cocky, People

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• 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

  Jesus, Kings, Character

  John Ashcroft´s Speech at Bob Jones University, www.nytimes.com. January 13, 2001.

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• . . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have a moral or civic responsibility to this project of memory that ought to influence the way he or she engages in historical practice? Should moral concerns influence the historian's choice of subject matter, of issues to discuss, of evidence to use?

  Michael L Morgan

  Memories, Responsibility, Past

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• 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

  Thinking, Government, Confusing

  "With New Funding and Fellows, Code for America Looks to Scale Civic Innovation Across the Country" by Alexander Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice, we make ourselves its accomplices, at times we applaud it, and it is just, very just that we suffer the consequences, that our children suffer them. It is the God of liberty ... who obliges us to love it, by making the yoke heavy for us - a God of mercy, of equity, who while He chastises us betters us and only grants prosperity to him who has merited it through his efforts. The school of suffering tempers, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.

  Jose Rizal

  Children, School, Effort

  Jose Rizal, Charles Derbyshire (1912). “The reign of greed: a complete English version of El Filibusterismo from the Spanish”

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• Heaven was not so far away in the eyes of these people (the Maya), who believed that individual, civic and social truths could be revealed by consulting with nature: the shifting of the wind, the arrival of the rain, the appearance of the stars

  Anthony Aveni

  Stars, Rain, Eye

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• And it’d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington.

  Stephen Briggs

  Dutch, Example, Strange

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• I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy families that want to own it for reasons other than maximizing profits. I also believe newspapers should remain in local hands.

  Eli Broad

  Believe, Hands, Foundation

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• Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

  Alfred the Great

  New Year, War, Pride

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

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• The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.

  Helmuth James Graf von Moltke

  Country, Military, Army

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• It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you – that closes the loop on pecuniary self-interest. Customers are always right, but people aren't.

  Eli Pariser

  Self, People, World

  Eli Pariser (2011). “The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think”, p.21, Penguin

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• Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

  Tony Wilson

  Pride, Gun, Drug

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• People reared in workhouses, as you are aware, are no great acquisition to the community and they have no ideas whatsoever of civic responsibilities. As a rule their highest aim is to live at the expense of the ratepayers. Consequently, it would be a decided gain if they all took it into their heads to emigrate. When they go abroad they are thrown on their own responsibilities and have to work whether they like it or not.

  W. T. Cosgrave

  Responsibility, Ideas, People

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• The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we are all created equal and endowed by the Creator, God, with our unalienable rights.

  Alan Keyes

  Biblical, Rights, Creator God

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