Citizen Quotes

869 Citizen quotes by 627 unique authors

You think of yourself as a citizen of the universe. You think you belong to this world of dust and matter. Out of this dust… — Unknown Author
After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so… — Scott Turow
I'm a good citizen. I'm a good father. I recycle and I masturbate. — Louis C. K.
You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen. — John Adams
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. — George Washington
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. — James Madison
Our world has created a false unrealistic image of what women are supposed to look like and act like. But the truth is that every… — Joyce Meyer
In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions.… — Saul Bellow
With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way… — Orson Scott Card
I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't… — James A. Baldwin
I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick to indoctrinate you… — Russell Brand
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the… — Caitlin Moran
As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual… — Rita Mae Brown
I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy. — Sam Lipsyte
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then?… — Henry David Thoreau
All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of… — Mary Oliver
It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city,… — Suketu Mehta
The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights… — Laurie Halse Anderson
You’re loitering, citizen.” “Actually, I was hesitating. — Steven Erikson
Now that he's gone, I feel like I'm a senior citizen who gave away her life savings over the phone. And this is the crux:… — Emma Forrest
The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak,… — Charles Dickens
Wait. Far be it for me to say this" — Hamish looked around the compartment — "and if anyone tells Uncle Eddie I suggested being… — Ally Carter
If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who were chucked out… — Tariq Ali

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