Civic Minded Quotes

• If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.

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  Amanda Peet

  Children   Intelligent   Thinking  

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. May 13, 2012.

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• What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

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  Abraham Lincoln

  Independence   Liberty   Civic Minded  

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.128, Fordham Univ Press

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• What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms...

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  Abraham Lincoln

  War   Army   Gun  

  "Lincoln on Democracy" by Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt, Fordham University Press, (p. 128), September 1, 2004.

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• My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.

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  Sissy Spacek

  Children   Two   Parent  

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• ...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was sitting in a bar here in Davos with Bono. Late at night, after a few drinks, he was on fire, talking about how we could get a percentage of each purchase from civic-minded companies to help change the world. He kept calling people, waking them up, and handing me the phone to show me the interest.

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  Bill Gates

  Business   Night   Talking  

  "A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century". Bill Gates' speech at World Economic Forum 2008 in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• One must always be civic-minded.

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  Hiroo Onoda

  Civic Minded   Civics  

  "Words to Live by Hiroo Onoda" by Judit Kawaguchi, archive.is. January 16, 2007.

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• Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex.

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  Valerie Solanas

  Sex   Government   Feminist  

  "SCUM Manifesto". P. 1, 1967.

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• I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While Americans prefer to imagine that the vast majority of American Muslims are civic-minded patriots who accept wholeheartedly the parameters of American pluralism, this proposition has actually never been proven.

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  Robert Spencer

  Community   Peaceful   Majority  

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