Civic Quotes

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

– Bruce Schneier

High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.

– Ben Bernanke

I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.

– George Takei

I’ve tried to be active in civic organizations as well as the Church.

– Margaret D. Nadauld

One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.

– Natasha Trethewey

Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.

– Cokie Roberts

There’s a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

– Michael Ignatieff

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

– Peter Coyote

It is difficult to overstate the importance of media as a tool to encourage civic engagement and participation, and the importance of a diverse and well-informed public.

– Tony Cardenas

Voting is a civic sacrament.

– Theodore Hesburgh

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

– Wole Soyinka

What’s similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

– Zaha Hadid