Quotes About Civic Virtue

#1. The ills attributed to an anthropomorphic abstraction called "society" may be laid more realistically at the door of Everyman. Utopia must spring in the private bosom before it can flower into civic virtue, inner reforms leading to outer ones. A man who has reformed himself will reform thousands.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#2. It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

Benito Mussolini

#3. He spent part of last year working in Canada, and I think it rubbed off on him, diminishing his innate American ability to celebrate the civic virtue of idiocy.

Sarah Vowell

#4. A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Phillip E. Johnson

#5. Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.

Daniel Berrigan

#6. Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called civic virtue.

Dallin H. Oaks

#7. Republicanism was easier to evolve than to define.

Mark A. Noll

#8. I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains.

Tommy Lee Jones

#9. He who is a useful keeper of anything is also a better thief.

Plato

#10. Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.

Caitlyn Jenner

#11. Public symbols matter. They are one of the ways we tell each other, and the world, what we honor.

Michael W. McConnell

#12. Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.

J. William Schickel

#13. The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

Rebecca Goldstein

#14. Of the twenty- three men and women who served in Dwight Eisenhower's cabinets, only one, the secretary of agriculture, published a memoir afterward, and it was so discreet as to be soporific.

David Brooks

#15. The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use; but when it becomes the thing worked for it distorts all the relations of life.

Edith Wharton

#16. We need an assembly, not for cleverness, but for setting things straight.

William Golding

#17. Noting the lack of crime or security in the Netherlands, the author asked a native who guarded a national landmark. He got the replay, We all do.

Bill Bryson

#18. A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

Honore De Balzac

#19. Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior of large portions of the youth population in the United States today.

William Damon

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John Boyne