“Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.” IfsNeedsShouldWellsCountryCoursesResponsibilityEnvironmentFocusStudentsCitizensEducatedCivicsWell EducatedProficiencyCivic Responsibility Author:George Nethercutt
“Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful society--but the educated citizen has a special responsibility by the virtue of his greater understanding. For whether he has ever studied history or current events, ethics or civics, the rules of a profession or the tools of a trade, he knows that only a respect for the law makes it possible for free men to dwell together in peace and progress.” KnowsMenTogetherLawUnderstandingResponsibilityVirtueGreaterProgressSpecialEventsCitizensEthicsToolsThirdsTradeCurrentsProfessionObligationEducatedPeacefulCivicsFree ManCurrent EventsPeaceful Society Author:John F. Kennedy
“The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose, to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.” StillsPurposeLibertyCitizensThreatBritishCertaintyComparisonMuseumsInquiryCivicsFree SocietyBritish Museum Author:Neil MacGregor
“A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.” AbilityFailingDutyCitizensEconomicsCastsCivicsBallotsCivic Duty Author:Ludwig von Mises
“I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.” FeelsWellsWarStatesWaterReligiousPayMoralOur LivesSacrificeLandHonestDutyCitizensTaxesAuthorityOrganizationRegardFellowsBillsIncomeObligationGasElectricityDeclarationBehalfUtilityCivicsSuppliesIncome TaxCivic DutyMoral Duty Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“Those are big challenges in our age, not just how we live as co-citizens in societies with people of different faiths and different cultures - I mean, that's a big challenge itself - but how we think about all that as Christians, or as Jews, or as Muslims, or as Hindus. How do we think about the religious other? There's a theological dimension as well as a civic dimension to our pluralism.” PeopleThinkingWellsMeanDifferentBigsAgeChristianCultureChallengesReligiousCitizensJewDimensionsCivicsTheologicalDifferent CulturesPluralismBig ChallengesDifferent Faiths Author:Diana L. Eck
“The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development.” PeopleStatesFactsTodayUnitedUnited StatesInfluenceEconomicDevelopmentCitizensCivicsResidentsLending Author:Frank B. Kellogg
“It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic nature of the Greek theater. All the citizens stopped working. They came into these theaters. It wasn't like a Broadway theater where you sit in the dark and you expect to be passively entertained. You're in this theater, amphitheater, in bright sunlight looking at your fellow citizens, recognizing their faces, and thinking with them about the future of your city. I think very few cultures have had a theatrical tradition that is quite so civic.” ThinkingArtFacesCultureDarkCitiesSpecialCitizensTraditionTheaterFellowsGreekSunlightBroadwayRecognizingTheatricalCivicsSomething SpecialOther Cultures Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.” FeelsFirstsIdeasLastsSpeakResponsibilityClassGenerationsCitizensSpeechAmendmentsFreedom Of SpeechFirst AmendmentCivicsSpeaks Out Author:Roger Ebert
“It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.” GivingStatesConsciousnessVirtueCitizensUnityMissionsEducateCivicsCivic DutyCivic Virtue Book:My Autobiography: With Source: My Autobiography: With
“Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.” PeopleArtYoungCommunityGroupsCitizensConcernedOrganizationActiveNeighborhoodAssociationLeisureCivicsWorshippers Author:Jonathan Sacks
“There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to confuse 'civic' and 'civil,' and they believe that everything that is done by citizens is necessarily a good thing because you build a network, an association.” PeopleThinkingBelieveDoneCitizensGood ThingsAbsurdAssumptionSpheresAssociationCivics Author:Evgeny Morozov