Citizen Quotes

• I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • World
  • Citizen
  • Ukraine

• Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Divine

• Digital India is about empowering the citizen - it's mobile, it's cloud, it's storage - we are in all those areas.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Empowering
  • Digital
  • Cloud

• This is not a case of a pampered athlete. He took it like a man. He took it like any citizen in this situation. He didn't whimper, he didn't cry, he didn't beg. He took it like a man.

  

  Peter Hobson
  • Man
  • Case
  • Took

• A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Security
  • Citizen
  • Paths

• As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Worse
  • Variety
  • Post-historical

• I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • American
  • Rights
  • Citizen

• Whenever you get involved with talking about rights, you're talking about being a citizen. You're talking about being a citizen in capitalism; you're talking about what rights are granted to what identities, under what laws, and all that is a big mix. Marriage is, among many other things, a formality to channel capital through a family. And that's why the big DOMA lawsuit was about paying too many taxes! "I wouldn't have had to pay all these taxes if Theodora had been Theo" - that was the big tagline. It's all about protecting assets.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Talking
  • Rights
  • Citizen

• Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."

  

  Diogenes
  • World
  • Citizen
  • Asked

• I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Great
  • Better
  • Citizen

• I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

  

  Socrates
  • World
  • Good Will
  • Nationality

• My childhood was very sheltered. I grew up in a palace. But I lived in Morocco as a Moroccan citizen.

  

  Mohammed VI of Morocco
  • Childhood
  • Citizen
  • Palace

• I believe evidence will show that he's innocent, Kevin Jones is a fine citizen, one thing you haven't heard, is anything negative about Kevin. He's holding up pretty good, considering he's accused of murdering the girl he loved.

  

  Kenny Johnson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Time
  • Space
  • Explorers

• A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit.... A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Power
  • Opinion

• The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we're living, the things that we're dealing with, is some reality TV show. This is real life, real children, real situations.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Children

• We want to free our citizens from the burden of excessive paper documents in every office. We want paperless transactions. We will set up a digital locker for every citizen to store personal documents that can be shared across departments.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Up
  • Want
  • Free

• The strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only defense the ordinary citizen has.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Country
  • Knees
  • Corporation

• The news that a third British citizen has died from his wounds from the attack in Iraq is terrible -- terrible for his family and for his community -- and it is something which all of us condemn unreservedly.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Family
  • Community
  • Iraq

• It is actually against the law for a citizen to give money to a terrorist.

  

  Lesley Stahl
  • Money
  • Law
  • Terrorist

• In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Serious

• When a person tries to act in accordance with his conscience, when he tries to speak the truth, when he tries to behave like a citizen, even in conditions where citizenship is degraded, it won't necessarily lead anywhere, but it might. There's one thing, however, that will never lead anywhere, and that is speculating that such behavior will lead somewhere.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Truth
  • Person
  • Lead

• One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Constitution
  • Salvation

• I remind myself of the power of thought and how it's my obligation as a citizen (and student) of humanity to propel compassion.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Power
  • Humanity
  • Thought

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