Citizen Quotes

869 Citizen quotes by 627 unique authors

I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the… — Mother Teresa
Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not… — Charlie Chaplin
I think I've been a great citizen. — O J Simpson
There is a denial of the value of the individual. Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it. The individual is sacrificed… — Clement Attlee
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey. — Chaim Weizmann
My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In… — Aldo Leopold
Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often… — Jerome Bruner
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility. — Stephen Baxter
In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the community’s defence… — Alan Keyes
A citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of… — Kofi Annan
It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his… — Albert J. Nock
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
We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the… — Mitch Daniels
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either. — James Callaghan
Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask… — Chalmers Johnson
For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure. — Lois Lowry
You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately,… — Homer Hickam
He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was… — Unknown Author
On the eve of my laying down office, with the inauguration of the Republic, I should like to tender my greetings and best wishes to… — C. Rajagopalachari
Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted... to become in the future as closely united, as powerful, and as authoritative as once… — Wilhelm II
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship. — Mark Steyn
I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen — Edwin Edwards
Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to… — John Jay Hooker
Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a… — Walter E. Williams
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled,… — Wilkie Collins

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