Ordinary Citizens Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with…
— Malcolm Wallop
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Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve…
— Heinrich Himmler
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Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a…
— Heinrich Himmler
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The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of…
— Charles Dickens
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Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
— Kenzo Tange
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A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains…
— Charles Ives
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When Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant. I'm grateful that I allowed her to persuade me. The…
— Edward Snowden
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Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy, individualism and wit.…
— Camille Paglia
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The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you…
— Mia Love
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The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting thought leaders and activists to ordinary citizens rapidly expanding…
— Simon Mainwaring
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My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did…
— Imelda Marcos
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I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
— Vladimir Putin
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King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of…
— Cornel West
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Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
— Howard Rheingold
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Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal…
— Glenn Greenwald
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For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity. A man-made moon visible by ordinary citizens, it inspired awe and pride that humans had…
— David Hoffman
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Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.
— Benigno Aquino III
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
— Ha-Joon Chang
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Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved,…
— Charles Albert Gobat
Who Wrote These Ordinary Citizens Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 Ordinary Citizens Quotes as follows: