Quotes about citizen
Diogenes -
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Jeff Denham -
Whether we start with a provisional status and legal permanent residence... or we set up some other way to assimilate legally, you can't ever put in something that says, 'You can never become a citizen.' That's un-American.
Alexander Cockburn -
Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.
Jeff Cooper -
Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.
Satchel Paige -
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
It is a duty of every citizen to pray for those who are authority and the nation so that each one of us may live a peaceful and quiet lives in sacredness.
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
A knowledgeable citizen is a powerful citizen because knowledge is power! Make your nation a powerful one... Keep reading to acquire more knowledge! Let books be your friends never disappoint them by not studying them frequently!
E.A. Bucchianeri - Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.
De philosopher DJ Kyos -
If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity .
De philosopher DJ Kyos -
I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.
De philosopher DJ Kyos -
Children are no longer being parented, but are raised. Thats why they don't have morals, ethics,humanity and manners, because their parents neglected them. We now live in a society that doesnt care about right or wrong.
De philosopher DJ Kyos -
When people support you when you have done something wrong. It doesnt mean you are right, but it means those people are promoting their hate , bad behavior or living their bad lives through you.
De philosopher DJ Kyos -
Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better.
Amit Kalantri -
Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians.
Claudia Rankine -
And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you.
Noah Webster -
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
As a citizen of the world, I will not confine myself within the gates of one nation or religion. I will not identify with only one species, sex, class or race; for I am a complete being, and that means that I embrace all of humanity, all of nature, every star and universe within the greater universe as a part of me. If we were all created in the image of God, and his love is unconditional, then why can't we love all living things with the same eyes as God? How can anybody say that one race is mo
H.L. Mencken -
Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.
Paul D. Escott - Uncommonly Savage: Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States
The past is the occupational realm of historians—their daily work—and scholars have debated what their stance toward these social issues should be. As citizens and professionals, historians may naturally form a desire, as Carl Becker puts it, “to do work in the world.” That is, they might aspire to write history that is not only of scholarly value but also has a salutary impact in society. Becker defines the appropriate impact and the historian’s proper role as “correcting and rationalizing for
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Ladder
Leaders don't cry for what country can do for them for free. They dream about what they can do for country at high cost.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
The greatest part of our existence enfold in service of humanity.
Lucille Ball -
Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Amit Kalantri -
An anarchist government somehow creates an impression in the hearts of citizens that no one cares.
Amit Kalantri -
An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government.
David Marusek - Mind Over Ship
Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.
Amit Kalantri -
Politics doesn’t mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people.
Amit Kalantri -
Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public.
Charles A. Beard -
It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Sunday Adelaja -
A responsible citizen is the one that sees something wrong in the society, something he is not satisfied with or that he cannot agree with and responds not by blaming the government or leaders. But by designing ways and means of bringing a lasting solution to the issues at hand
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
The failure of the citizens to pray for the nation will lead to its collapse.
Anthony Liccione -
Nowadays, a simple faulty brake light traffic stop, can get a black person killed. It's better to fix the broken light bulb, then having to face and cooperate with a senseless police officer.
Mike Norton -
War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
You are not white,but a rainbow of colors.You are not black,but golden.You are not just a nationality,but a citizen of the world.You are not just for the right or left,but for what is right over the wrong.You are not just rich or poor,but always wealthy in the mind and heart.You are not perfect, but flawed.You are flawed, but you are just.You may just be conscious human,but you are also a magnificentreflection of God.
Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance
Until there is equal and fair portion of opportunities apportioned for every citizen, the power structure may need to be restructured.
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Your patriotism is not measured by what your country can do for you. It's all about what you can do for your country for your own benefit and for the benefit of unborn generations!
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
The time to clean our city of any dirt begins individual action for collective clean communities.
Manasa Rao -
Borrowing other people’s culture and adopting other people’s way of life does destroy nation’s self-respect which is the greatest asset a true citizen can enjoy more than food and clothes, more than all amenities and more than military glory. You can adopt a system of government and a way of life, but can you adopt the past history, travail and tradition out of which that system of government and a way of life were evolved? Can we adopt King Charles, King John, Magna Carta and civil wars and Cro
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb -
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men, carried to the summit of the edifice, draw and put up the higher floors, the ordinary artists scattered in the lower floors, or hidden in the obscurity of the foundations, must only seek to improve what cleverer hands have created.
Christina Engela - Blachart
Apathy.The reason you may wake up one day being not only a 2nd class citizen, but a criminal because of who you are - and then wonder why 'somebody' didn't do something when there was still time?
Buzz Aldrin -
It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
Sunday Adelaja -
As long as ordinary citizens are as corrupt as the politicians in their daily lifestyle, the country will continue to suffer.
Tracey Bond - Spirit Fed Entrepreneur: Growing Your Business with a Fearless Mindset
To live with unforgiveness is to become a captive cultured citizen whose taxation is that of demonically ticketed torment.
Sunday Adelaja -
The corrupt system made the ordinary citizen absolutely powerless and without rights
Sandra Chami Kassis -
Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.
Socrates -
I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world.
Anonymous -
Paul said I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus a city in Cilicia a citizen of no mean city.
Sunday Adelaja -
A country cannot change, be transformed or developed as long as there is no truth and honesty as an everyday principle among the citizens of the nation.
Toba Beta - My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
In a country of ideas, consciousness is its' citizen.
Sunday Adelaja -
The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
It is a tragedy, at rate at which EBOLA VIRUS is spreading in West Africa. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus.
Sunday Adelaja -
National Transformation must begin with every citizen of the land.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
How can the nation be mightier, without unity of its citizens?
Theodore Roosevelt - The Man in the Arena: Selected Writings of Theodore Roosevelt: A Reader
In the long run, success or failure will beconditioned upon the way in which the average man, the average women, does his or her duty, first in the ordinary, every-day affairs of life, and next in those great occasional cries which call for heroic virtues. The average citizen must be a good citizen if our republics are to succeed. The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of t
William Marshall - The Far Away Man
― all you have to do is kill every citizen at birth and then, by God, you're left with the perfect ―
Jeff Cooper -
The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.
George Wallace -
The average citizen in this county has more intelligence and sense in his little finger than the editor of 'The New York Times' has in his whole head.
Theodore Roosevelt -
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Gordon B. Hinckley -
Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.
Morley Safer -
I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.
Tommy Wiseau -
I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.
Jesse Ventura -
There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
Jesse Ventura -
Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.
Robert Jackson -
It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
Bob Riley -
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
Bharati Mukherjee -
I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.
Raoul Peck -
That's part of being a real citizen: always questioning your leadership, not only about what it is doing in your own country, but what it is doing elsewhere. Because it is connected.
Sunday Adelaja -
Personal Responsibility of each citizen before the nation, is usually well defined in all developed nations.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer - The Mute's Soliloquy: a Memoir
There is at least one advantage to being an Indonesian citizen: With this country's expanse of land and even greater expanse of sea, it's not difficult finding space for one's grave.
Sunday Adelaja -
The decisions of citizens either in matters of private business or political life of the nation, are directly related to the prevailing value system of the nation
Sunday Adelaja -
If a country complains that they don’t have good leaders, those leaders are only as a result of the prevailing value system that every citizen of that country has been exposed to.
Steven Magee -
In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people.
Wael Ghonim -
The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power