Quotes About Civic Responsibility

#1. [I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

Katie Couric

#2. One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest.

Trent Lott

#3. My hands are out of practice, my eyes disused. Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration ... are too much for me. I have lost confidence: perhaps all I will ever be is what I am now.

Margaret Atwood

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

Donna Brazile

#5. The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.

Patrick Dempsey

#6. SCORPIUS: A doe? Lily's Patronus. SNAPE: Strange, isn't it? What comes from within.

J.K. Rowling

#7. By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning.

John Glenn

#8. We teach people in order to open up their minds and release their captive powers. But we cannot predict the result. Freedom - we free their minds from superstition. We give the people the keys of the future to act therein as they wish.

Tayeb Salih

#9. Be strong enough to stand up again, even after haters make you drop to your knees.

T.D. Jakes

#10. Democracy transformed from thin paper to thick action is the greatest form of government on earth.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#11. 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

#12. You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.

Christine Pelosi

#13. Like many wealthy Americans, he was imbued with a sense of civic responsibility

Anthony Horowitz

#14. I'm just trying to do my part to save the world.

J. Cornell Michel

#15. It's like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider.

Tracy Morgan

#16. 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

#17. My job is, I'm a photographer. I'm something of a filmmaker. And primarily, I'm an adventurer. My job is to help people fall in love with their world, their planet. With the understanding that you don't save what you don't love.

Sebastian Copeland

#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. I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.

Jim Lehrer

#20. I lost some friends when I made the move, but if that's what matters to them, then they're not really friends at all.

Jock Stein

#21. When we return to our breathing, we return to the present moment, our true home. There's no need for us to struggle to arrive somewhere else. We know our final destination is the cemetery. Why are we in a hurry to get there? Why not step in the direction of life, which is in the present moment?

Thich Nhat Hanh

#22. I started sfCiti because I believed that technology companies needed to take a 'One City' approach and build a shared sense of community and civic responsibility in San Francisco.

Ron Conway

#23. There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities.

Otis Moss III

#24. Food can heal and renew. Food can be your anti-aging medicine.

Deepak Chopra

#25. Every so often, in the midst of chaos, you come across an amazing, inexplicable instance of civic responsibility. Maybe the last shred of faith people have is in their firemen.

Kurt Vonnegut

#26. 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

#27. In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Barack Obama

#28. Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.

Christine Pelosi

#29. There is a Party of fiscal responsibility ... economic responsibility ... social responsibility ... civic responsibility ... personal responsibility ... and moral responsibility. That party is the Democratic Party.

Howard Dean

#30. If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.

Madame De Stael

#31. In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world around them, develop a sense of civic and social responsibility, and discover how they can contribute to the common good?

Ernest L. Boyer

#32. Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

Charles W. Pickering