#civic

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

#become #civics #concerned #education #had

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#civic #distributing #does #duty #getting

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#be the first #civic #distrust #duty #first

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#come #flow #freedoms #fundamentally #institutions

We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#competitive #democracy #economically #educated #get

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

— Charles Evans Hughes

#civics #efficient #first #government #home

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school. ↗

— Donna Brazile

#education #elementary #elementary school #responsibility #school

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

#anger-management #civics #envy #internet #playerhaters

To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. ↗

— David McCullough

#civic-responsibility #history #humanity #life #mankind

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just. ↗

— Dahlia Lithwick

#democracy #justice #prop- #courage