Citizens Quotes

• A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of being entranced by the visual spectacle, and then also the very graphic forms of public mourning for exemplary citizens (taking place at the same time as the refusal to mourn the undocumented, the foreign, gay and lesbian lives lost there, for example). I am not sure that the guilt over the pleasure re-installed the good citizen.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Experience
  • Guilt
  • Spectacle

• I'm very proud that a woman, has finally been chosen as a candidate for the president of the United States, because I always felt women should be treated like first-class citizens.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Proud
  • Woman
  • President

• More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Say
  • Listen
  • Customers

• When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

  

  Plato
  • Society
  • Citizens
  • Leaders

• The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Action
  • Individual
  • Familiar

• We have no idea how much the government knows and how much the CIA even knows about average citizens. The government is not supposed to be doing this in this country. They listen in on our phone calls. I am not exaggerating because I have studied this a long time.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Country
  • Government
  • Phone Calls

• Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Freedom
  • Duty

• Connectivity is important to our state, including the opportunity for our citizens to see our legislative process at work.

  

  Matt Mead
  • Important
  • Opportunity
  • Process

• Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Sometimes
  • Democracy
  • Brother

• Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?

  

  Socrates
  • Children
  • Wealth
  • Burn

• The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.

  

  Aristotle
  • Happy
  • Government
  • Virtue

• Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?"

  

  Epictetus
  • Friends
  • Citizens
  • Neighbour

• The real need of the day is moral and spiritual rearmament. God's Living Spirit can transcend conflicting political systems, can reconcile order and freedom, can rekindle true patriotism, can unite all citizens in the service of the nation, and all nations in the service of mankind.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • Real
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• I'm the world heavyweight champion. I consider myself a citizen of the whole world.

  

  George Foreman
  • World
  • Champion
  • Heavyweights

• In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Belonging

• I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • Future
  • Attention
  • Eyes

• In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • States
  • Relation
  • Complicated

• The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

  

  Gerry Adams
  • Forever
  • Citizens
  • Humiliation

• For every citizen that was robbed, I had failed.

  

  Babatunde Fashola
  • Citizens
  • Screening

• I have sacrificed my freedom and risked my life in order to expose the danger of nuclear weapons which threatens this whole region. I acted on behalf of all citizens and all of humanity.

  

  Mordechai Vanunu
  • Humanity
  • Danger
  • Weapons

• We all agree that marriage is a fundamental right. And in our country, and in our society, there are no second-class citizens.

  

  Bill T. Jones
  • Marriage
  • Right
  • Citizens

• My wife's from Canada, and we're Canadian citizens.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Wife
  • Canada
  • Canadian

• A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They deride the apprehensions of those who foresee, that licentiousness will prove, as it ever has proved, fatal to liberty.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Believe
  • Liberty
  • Evidence

• We've already seen in the Windrush scandal how the Conservatives' hostile environment checks can destroy the lives of people who have every right to be in the UK. The government's chaotic approach to Brexit risks a repeat of that scandal for EU citizens.

  

  Edward Davey
  • Environment
  • Risks
  • Conservatives

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