Citizens Quotes - Page 14

My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?

I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little.

The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

I think of myself as a global citizen.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.

The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It is not at all probable that this unbridled spirit would pay much respect to those regulations of trade by which particular States might endeavor to secure exclusive benefits to their own citizens.

In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you

As regards humanitarian issues and how to handle them, that was the Prime Minister's [Shinzō Abe] initiative. He brought the matter up at our last meeting in Lima and asked me straightforwardly whether we would agree to let Japanese citizens travel on a visa-free basis, resolve the issue in such a way as to enable them to visit the South Kurils, visit their native areas. I said at once that it was quite possible.

Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.

Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.

I think the nation as a whole has a role in making sure that each individual, each citizen maximizes one's potential.

I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.

The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military

If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

I'm a happy person but an angry citizen.