Citizens Quotes

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

Ernie Fletcher
One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Time
- Men
- Citizens

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.

Bill Gates
Philly is a city made up of many neighborhoods - more than a hundred, in fact - and the citizens can be very territorial.

Richard Montanari
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- Citizens
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There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

Plato
- Poverty
- Wealth
- Citizens
Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

Emil Cioran
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens
I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do well, which is to set policy.

Esther Dyson