Civic Responsibility, Social Responsibility Quotes

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

The young people ... must recognize that they will get from their country tomorrow what they give her today.

We want to have a conversation about what does it mean to be liberal in the 21st century and how do we go about creating that kind of a society.

I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among people.

Every country has the government it deserves.

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

I've prepared 100 coffins. 99 for corrupt officials and one for myself.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

Citizens are the energy of Seoul.

There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.

The prince must not mind incurring the scandal of those vices without which it would be difficult to save the state.

The way that we are going to solve social problems is by working with multiple different types of investing.

If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Men who have greatness within them don't go into politics.

In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.

...the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.