Citizens Quotes - Page 28

It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice.

What happens to the faith healer and the shaman when any poor citizen can see the full effect of drugs or surgeries, administered without ceremonies or mystifications? Roughly the same thing as happens to the rainmaker when the climatologist turns up, or to the diviner from the heavens when schoolteachers get hold of elementary telescopes.

Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.

It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.

Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens.

An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.

For every citizen that was robbed, I had failed.

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.

The phrase "global citizen" always gets tossed around with my work, and part of it is that, clearly, talking about being a global citizen is the only way we can talk about participating in globalization without feeling like assholes.

Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.

It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself.

Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state.

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

The United States remains deeply concerned that, to date, no individuals have been convicted for the 1999 killings of U.S. citizens Agron, Ylli, and Mehmet Bytyqi.

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.