Civic Value Quotes

#1. Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused instead of some sophisticated task.

Clay Shirky

#2. 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

#3. Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

Bertrand Russell

#4. Healing facilitates lasting change; change facilitates healing.

Sharon Weil

#5. Food is fun to write about because everybody has an opinion. Food is also fun to write about because it's a challenge. There are only so many ways to describe a plate of gnudi without resorting to "pillowy."

Lauren Collins

#6. Sounds like Henry was jealous. His pride was hurt. So he acted like an ass. Every guy does that from time to time.

Miranda Kenneally

#7. Her punishment was to be made to feel like a fool. She had been given her opportunity to participate in civilization, and she had muffled it.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Paul Klee