Quotes about citizens
Binyavanga Wainaina -
I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.
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!
Sunday Adelaja -
Focus your whole attention on heaven become a citizen of heaven.
Robert H. Jackson -
It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.
Daniel Webster -
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
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 - Think Great: Be Great!
Freedom is willpower to act for a change.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
We volunteer to work for the love and joy of service.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
The hunger for change is the desire to make a change.
Abhijit Naskar -
A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
We must live as people with great hope.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
The holy country is occupied by holy citizens.
Amelia Boynton Robinson -
I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans.
Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance
In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having rights and privileges as citizens of that nation.
Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance
If there is any society where the leaders lack the knowledge and the importance of justice, then oppression will be a common neighbor of the citizens.
Robert McKee - and the Principles of Screenwriting
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.
De philosopher DJ Kyos -
Our government says people must not take law in their own hands, But has given the law in the hands of people who in power. That is why people who are in power are always corrupt, arrogant, violent, Aggressive, selfish, and don't care about anyone. They get away with all the bad things they do that Is criminating unlawful and injustice
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
If it has to be done, take the responsibility to do it.
Charles M. Blow -
Trump’s America is not America: not today’s or tomorrow’s, but yesterday’s.Trump’s America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is a vast expanse of darkness and desolation.And that is a vision of America that most of the people in this country cannot and will not abide.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
You have a great talent and a great role in the world.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Jesus Christ lives in all people. We are citizens of one world.
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
We must submit to God's righteous rule.
E.A. Bucchianeri - Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.
Sunday Adelaja -
What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality
Melina Marchetta - The Piper's Son
What about the contacts your mum had?” his dad asked.“I rang and spoke to four very polite computers who gave me all these options and then cut out on me. Then I tried the post office, because they were advertising, and I spoke to another computer. Very rude, that one. Don’t think it recognized ‘Are you shitting me?’ as an option.”“You know why that is?”“Why is that, Dominic?” Tom had asked drolly, because he knew he was going to be told why.“Because we don’t live in a society anymore, Tom. We l
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt.
Amit Kalantri -
Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics.
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.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
The failure of the nation lies in the failure of its citizens.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country’s well-being.
Sunday Adelaja -
Although we, as Christians, are living in Sodom, we are not to become citizens of Sodom. . The story of Sodom is God's reminder to the modern world
Wayne Chirisa -
Ineffective leadership, is the plight of followers who anoint power to the autocratic persons who's visions are not founded but are rather arbitrary in their nature.
Steven Magee -
Most USA citizens never realize that the systems of public protection are essentially useless until they try to use them. At that point they learn the hard way that government agencies like OSHA, FCC, FDA, police internal affairs, disability, and the like do not work for them.
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.
Laura Ruby - Bone Gap
You're only hurting yourself. Besides, the citizens like blood, don't they? They smell it.
Garry Douglas Kilworth - The Wizard Of Woodworld
One should never fight for a country. One should fight, if one has to, for what one believes to be right. A country is only as good as its leading citizens.
Sunday Adelaja -
It is impossible to get rid of the bondage of slavery, if we do not start acting as free citizens of our country
Steven Magee - Health Forensics
Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization.
Charles P. Pierce - Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
The United States is an easy country to love because you can take it on faith that, at some point in every waking hour of the day, there is among your fellow citizens a vast exaltation of opinions that test the outer boundaries of the Crazoid.
Sergei Lukyanenko - Новый Дозор
When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.
A.J. Beirens - Gesels van een imaginaire god
If the authorities under various false pretenses, continue curtailing the rights of citizens, so that they merely become serfs to a handful of multinational companies, a global rebellion of ordinary people against super capitalism is certainly not inconceivable.
Debasish Mridha -
If a nation blames other nations for their problems, most likely the citizens of the nations will do the same thing.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Never forsake your motherland.
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.
Homer Hickam - Rocket Boys
You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.
Sunday Adelaja -
The More Citizens Conform To The Law Of Love. The Less Governing Would Be Required
Sunday Adelaja -
When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time. Moreover, these material wealth don’t just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of the nation
Sunday Adelaja -
The citizens of the land, the peoples of the nation must be made strong in their convictions of these values. These values and virtues must become the wealth of the people, they must become their pride. They must be reflected in their lifestyle, in their film and movie industries. This value system must be ingrained in their educational system. They must be proclaimed in their pulpits. Homes and families must be built on the wealth of these virtues.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
We will be a mighty nation, if we build each other.
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
A country whose citizens do not read is already late because "reading" is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of the learnt knowledge is the gateway to personal transformation. If you don't read, you have not yet begun anything!
Jon Miller -
To an extent, we get the big businesses we deserve. No conversation about the role of business in society is complete without considering the role of the public. Ultimately it is the public – as consumers, as citizens – who create the environment in which business operates.
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
A true democratic society is supposed to serve its people, not big businesses. The welfare of its citizens, not corporate pockets. But when you have corporations buying the seats of our political leaders, who do you think they will serve?
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Clean communities, healthy citizens.
Margaret Mead -
There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that's the only thing that ever has.
Sunday Adelaja -
When the citizens of a nation have been made to love and adhere to values and virtues, then they make better choices.
Oche Otorkpa - The Unseen Terrorist
.Ensuring that young people get the right information that will enable them make the right choices is a responsibility all citizens must take seriously
Sunday Adelaja -
The ambiance of every environment in a country is the value system of the given nation. It is that culture that influences how citizens of a nation react, respond and behave among themselves in regards to politics, commerce, family and social life.
Barack Obama -
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
Matt Taibbi - and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively tiny oligarchy of extremely clever financial criminals and their castrato henchmen in government, whose job is to be good actors on TV and put on a good show.
George Takei -
My father once told me that American democracy is a people’s democracy at heart, and that it therefore can be as great as the American people, or as fallible. It depends on all of us. But our system is more fragile than we know. To sustain it, we must always cherish the ideals on which it was founded, remain vigilant against the dark forces that threaten it, and actively engage in the process of making it work.
Fairclough Norman -
the government tends to act like a corporation treating the public as its consumers rather than its citizens
Youns Hussein -
A government that kills its own citizens is like a parent that kills their own kids aka filicide or like a mother that kills her unborn by abortion .
Mark Twain - The Gilded Age
No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.
Sunday Adelaja -
When God speaks about equity, that choice of word, makes us understand that God is not referring to the leaders of the land or the elite this time around. He is actually talking about how ordinary citizens of the land relate to each other in fairness and impartiality.
Sunday Adelaja -
When God speaks about equity, that choice of word, makes us understand that God is not referring to the leaders of the land or the elite this time around. He is actually talking about how ordinary citizens of the land relate to each other in fairness and impartiality
George Washington -
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.
John Marshall Harlan -
But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guarantied by the supreme law of
Sunday Adelaja -
For example, the citizens will live out the value of diligence in their enterprises. They will live out the value of prudence in their finances. They will live out the value of industry in the economy. They will live out the value of love in their neighbourhood. They will live out the value of dignity of labour in the market place, etc. All these will go a long way into propelling both the economy and political life of a nation to the greatest height possible.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
he citizens must begin to work to clean the city and country of any dirt.
Ryszard Kapuscinski -
In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.
Stephen Kinzer -
Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.
Cole Younger -
They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.
Arlen Specter -
The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
George Takei -
We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect.
Donald Trump -
The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.
Bobby Moynihan -
When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.
John Lewis -
The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like many of our citizens did.
Rebecca MacKinnon -
As it turns out, American-made technology had helped Mubarak and his security state collect, compile, and parse vast amounts of data about everyday citizens.
James Madison -
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
Ted Cruz -
The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
Seamus Heaney -
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.