Ordinary Citizens Quotes

21 Ordinary Citizens quotes by 20 unique authors

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
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
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
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
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of… — Charles Dickens
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues. — Howard Rheingold
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
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
Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens. — Benigno Aquino III
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
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
Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the… — Mario Monti

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