Citizen Quotes
869 Citizen quotes by 627 unique authors
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I do not have voice for Russian music; I cannot be cute little peasant like in operas of Glinka or Rimsky-Korsakov. I am now never…
— Anna Netrebko
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No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.
— Mohammad Hamid Ansari
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Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I have become an American citizen, and I love this country. I think that this country has incredible potential for goodness, an incredible possibility for…
— Isabel Allende
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I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.
— Julian Assange
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Everyone in the Middle East pretty much wants to come and be an American citizen, but pretty much everybody is angry with the U. S.…
— Mohamed ElBaradei
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Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the…
— Robert Darnton
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I am a legal immigrant whose parents went from Russia to China to Chile to finally reach the United States and thereby give me a…
— Mike Medavoy
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I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
— Henry Rollins
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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Flying from L.A. to India is an arduous undertaking. I regard myself more as a trans-Atlantic citizen than an Indian.
— Satya Bhabha
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I think I shall return to America even a better patriot than when I left it. A citizen of the United States, travelling on the…
— William Cullen Bryant
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I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service…
— Stephen Hawking
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For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public,…
— Rory Stewart
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Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.
— Stanley Hauerwas
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I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen.
— Sebastian Horsley
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The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free…
— Neil MacGregor
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An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.
— Paul Watson
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I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a…
— Benigno Aquino III
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Google transformed the way most of us get our information with a search engine that enables us to find citizen-created media content alongside the work…
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with…
— Dennis Prager
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In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.
— Jill Lepore
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The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the value each of…
— Timothy Noah
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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…
— Barton Gellman
Who Wrote These Citizen Quotes
627 authors contributed a total of 869 Citizen Quotes, led by these top contributors: