Civic Participation Quotes & Sayings
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![Civic Participation Quotes By David Graeber Civic Participation Quotes By David Graeber](https://quotessayings.net/pics/civic-participation-quote-by-david-graeber-1303631.jpg)
When an economist attempts to prove that it is "irrational" to vote in national elections (because the effort expended outweighs the likely benefit to the individual voter), they use the term because they do not wish to say "irrational for actors for whom civic participation, political ideals, of the common good are not values in themselves, but who view public affairs only in terms of personal advantage. — David Graeber
![Civic Participation Quotes By Doris Sommer Civic Participation Quotes By Doris Sommer](https://quotessayings.net/pics/civic-participation-quote-by-doris-sommer-485850.jpg)
Civic participation depends on creativity, an (aesthetic) knack for reframing experience, and on a corollary freedom to adjust laws and practices in light of ever-new challenges. Without art, citizenship would shrink to compliance, as if society were a closed text. Reading lessons would stop at the factual "what is," rather than continue to the speculative "what if. — Doris Sommer
![Civic Participation Quotes By James Davison Hunter Civic Participation Quotes By James Davison Hunter](https://quotessayings.net/pics/civic-participation-quote-by-james-davison-hunter-1388894.jpg)
A final irony has to do with the idea of political responsibility. Christians are urged to vote and become involved in politics as an expression of their civic duty and public responsibility. This is a credible argument and good advice up to a point. Yet in our day, given the size of the state and the expectations that people place on it to solve so many problems, politics can also be a way of saying, in effect, that the problems should be solved by others besides myself and by institutions other than the church. It is, after all, much easier to vote for a politician who champions child welfare than to adopt a baby born in poverty, to vote for a referendum that would expand health care benefits for seniors than to care for an elderly and infirmed parent, and to rally for racial harmony than to get to know someone of a different race than yours. True responsibility invariably costs. Political participation, then, can and often does amount to an avoidance of responsibility. — James Davison Hunter
![Civic Participation Quotes By Samuel Civic Participation Quotes By Samuel](https://quotessayings.net/pics/civic-participation-quote-by-samuel-1421433.jpg)
The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement. — Samuel
![Civic Participation Quotes By Umberto Eco Civic Participation Quotes By Umberto Eco](https://quotessayings.net/pics/civic-participation-quote-by-umberto-eco-1487896.jpg)
In other words, to see if through these cultural phenomena a new Middle Ages is to take shape, a time of secular mystics, more inclined to monastic withdrawal than to civic participation. We should see how much, as antidote or as antistrophe, the old techniques of reason may apply, the arts of the Trivium, logic, dialectic, rhetoric. As we suspect that anyone who goes on stubbornly practicing them will be accused of impiety. — Umberto Eco
![Civic Participation Quotes By Al Franken Civic Participation Quotes By Al Franken](https://quotessayings.net/pics/civic-participation-quote-by-al-franken-1657371.jpg)
I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation. — Al Franken
![Civic Participation Quotes By Edwin Meese Civic Participation Quotes By Edwin Meese](https://quotessayings.net/pics/civic-participation-quote-by-edwin-meese-1730005.jpg)
To restore the American experiment in democratic self-government, religious believers need to redouble their civic efforts. For without our active participation in politics, the government will continue to trample on our rights. The Constitution does not prevent people of faith from being active in politics. — Edwin Meese
![Civic Participation Quotes By Mizuko Ito Civic Participation Quotes By Mizuko Ito](https://quotessayings.net/pics/civic-participation-quote-by-mizuko-ito-2142134.jpg)
Rather than assuming that education is primarily about preparing for jobs and careers, what would it mean to think of education as a process of guiding kids' participation in public life more generally, a public life that includes social, recreational, and civic engagement. — Mizuko Ito