Top 40 Quotes About Civic Duty
#1. I'd hate to imply that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but guess what it is.
Ty Burr
#2. Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Norman Douglas
#3. We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines through British history. Our commitment to fairness, fair play and civic duty.
Gordon Brown
#4. Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
Alain De Botton
#5. I'm going to go see if Graham needs first aid." Or mouth to mouth. It is my civic duty.
Lindy Zart
#6. We really have to do something about you ambivalence toward civic duty, kid."
"I already overthrew one government," Vin said. "I figure that takes care of my 'civic duty' for a while.
Brandon Sanderson
#7. It is the writer's duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader's civic duty to learn this truth. To turn away, to close one's eyes and walk past is to insult the memory of those who have perished.
Vasily Grossman
#8. There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.
Tim Heidecker
#9. 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.
Tom G. Palmer
#10. Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty.
Robert Darnton
#11. We in the Jewish community must ask ourselves what role we are going to play in changing policies and practices that discriminate against LGBT Americans. We have a special responsibility and civic duty to ensure that all Americans are treated with dignity and equality.
Lynn Schusterman
#12. The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know too little about our Constitution and think too superficially about its influence on the qualities of American life. Civic duty requires more.
David K. Shipler
#13. I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space.
David Blunkett
#14. Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty.
Shami Chakrabarti
#15. What is punishment and theft to conservatives is civic duty and fairness to liberals. There
George Lakoff
#16. 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.
Bob Black
#17. There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.
Oriana Fallaci
#18. I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation.
Paul Cook
#19. It was no accident that the beau ideal of his (John Adams') political philosophy was balance, since he projected onto the world the conflicting passions he felt inside himself and regarded government as the balancing mechanism that prevented those factions and furies from spending out of control.
Joseph J. Ellis
#20. Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.
Robert A. Heinlein
#21. You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.
Lena Dunham
#22. I realized there might be monetary or financial reasons to jump in and write a 'Winter's Bone Retriumphs' or something, and nobody would object to me doing that in publishing. But it would be a waste of my time, and they always take a little longer than you thought they would take.
Daniel Woodrell
#24. Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
George Washington
#25. The people had once created the city. The city now created the people, or, more exactly, the people of Venice now identified themselves more in terms of the city. The private had become public.
Peter Ackroyd
#26. Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them.
Rosario Ferre
#27. To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]
David McCullough
#28. Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson."
"Lake and Palmer?"
"Ralph and Waldo.
Louise Penny
#29. Some parents live more like reclusive monks than like first-century Christians who were famous for their love for and service within their cities, cities that in many cases were more overtly wicked than cities found in modern-day America.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#30. Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson II
#31. We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.
Mary Robinson
#32. I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time.
John Cleese
#33. Perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#34. A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Theodore Roosevelt
#35. Example, compared with hunter-gatherers, citizens of modern industrialized states enjoy better medical care, lower risk of death by homicide, and a longer life span,
Jared Diamond
#36. I like good writing. I don't especially care what genre." Mary's
Gordon Hopkins
#37. Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
Plutarch
#38. They scooped out our insides, Saul. We're not responsible for that. We're not responsible for what happened to us. None of us are. Fred said. But our healing
that's up to us. That's what saved me. Knowing it was my game.
Richard Wagamese
#39. People do not come out to vote for a United States Senator. They come out to vote for the Sheriff or the County Commissioner.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#40. A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
H.L. Mencken
