Quotes About Civics

#1. We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon.

Richard Dreyfuss

#2. I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

Olivia De Havilland

#3. Sometimes Carrot sounded like a civics essay written by a stunned choirboy.

Terry Pratchett

#4. What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

Sam Brownback

#5. Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class - or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.

Francine Prose

#6. Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#7. It's great that we're bringing democracy to Iraq. I can't wait to see how we do it! What are we gonna do, give them our civics textbooks?

Lewis Black

#8. if you think the corporations are evil and it's the government's job to make them moral, you're deflecting your own responsibility to civics. You're making the government your big brother and the corporation the evil bully your big brother's supposed to keep off you at recess.

David Foster Wallace

#9. Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.

Richard Dreyfuss

#10. I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#11. I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language.

Tim Scott

#12. I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

Roger Ebert

#13. We were at the edge of space. The boundary I'd dreamed of crossing my entire life. I'd never really believed I'd get the chance to do it during my lifetime - let alone today, when I should've been in my first-period civics class.

Ernest Cline

#14. We were having a class on civics, talking about what makes America a great country. I said I thought one important reason is that we've all come from different places in the world and that we learn from one another.

Ruth Reichl

#15. Civics is in fact politics, and politics is how things work not only in the political realm but in every other realm. It may be this simple mechanical glitch that unites everything. This is my philosophy.

Ken Burns

#16. Where once September seemed merely and quietly odd, staring out the window during Mathematics lectures and reading big colorful books under her desk during Civics, now the other children sensed something wild and foreign about her.

Catherynne M Valente

#17. You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Arthur Ashe

#18. The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

Charles Evans Hughes

#19. Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.

Mark McKinnon

#20. He was a fixer. He knew everyone who counted. He understood how things really worked in this town, as opposed to what they taught you in civics class or what you read in the papers, and he had a strong enough stomach to deal with all the creepy-crawlies you found when you turned over the rock.

Joseph Finder

#21. Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines
it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Robin Sloan

#22. When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

Mason Cooley

#23. Moral maturity and freedom require more than mere adherence to the law; they require an understanding of the why and wherefore of its rules and regulations- the principles that make it worthy of their allegiance.

Karen Bohlin

#24. I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.

Desmond Tutu

#25. I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

Leonard Baskin

#26. That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

Kurt Cobain

#27. One must always be civic-minded.

Hiroo Onoda

#28. An excess of the desire to appear grown up is one of the defining characteristics of adolescence.

Michael Chabon

#29. It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#30. My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

George Benson

#31. It is a mistake to tell students that their classroom is a democracy- it cannot and never will be. But children need to learn how to participate in a community and to prepare themselves for democratic citizenship.

Karen Bohlin

#32. Depth of feeling and clarity of thought isn't the same as knowing.

John De Ruiter

#33. My toes are going to come,
-Mariann
The Night Owl

Emma Holly

#34. Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.

Martin Buber

#35. Nixon had sought the treatment of a psychiatrist throughout the 1950s.

Mike Stone

#36. I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping.

Freddie Gibbs

#37. Happiness is making your dreams come true.

Jourdan Dunn

#38. The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it
while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation
takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.

Norman Manea

#39. 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

#40. I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.

Rodney Dangerfield

#41. Make sure what you do is a product of your own conclusion.

Jim Rohn

#42. When civic leaders are in love with their cities they are listened to; they are credible.

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

#43. When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#44. We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that carries oxygen to the various parts of the civic body.

Jack Lessenberry