Quotes about Civic
It is perhaps the most important civic duty of every citizen to inform themselves about the issues of the day and cast educated votes for people who truly represent their views.
- Ben Carson
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
- Stephen Jay Gould
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
- Aristotle
Any polis which is truly so called, and is not merely one in name, must devote itself to the end of encouraging goodness. Otherwise, political association sinks into a mere alliance.
- Aristotle
In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
- Herbert Hoover
Part of me would love to be mayor for the simple reason that I love my city.
- Eva Moskowitz
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
Religion ceases to be religion when its poetic authority is recast as civic authority.
- James Carse
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
- Alain de Botton