Citizens Quotes - Page 11

International law now grants rights to all human beings, not only to citizens.

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

Germans, Frenchmen and Englishmen can say of themselves: "I am the state." I cannot say that. In Russia only the people in the Kremlin can say that. All other citizens are nothing more than human material with which they can do all kinds of things.

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

Richard Nixon got kicked out of Washington for tapping one hotel suite. Today we're tapping every American citizen in the country, and no one has been put on trial for it or even investigated. We don't even have an inquiry into it.

I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.

The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.