Quote by Gunter Grass Download Open image “The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.” — Gunter Grass ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
It's not just lip service when I say I'm going to fight for the people. I've done that as a citizen already. — Lauren Boebert Copy Share Image
A good citizen,have feelings for his fellow citizens no matter the Hardship. — Ahmad Nuhu Copy Share Image
The private citizen today has come to feel rather like a deaf spectator in the back row, who ought to keep his mind on the mystery off there, but cannot quite manage to keep awake. He knows he is somehow affected by what is going on. Rules and regulations continually, taxes annually and wars occasionally remind him that he is… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The work of being a citizen is hard and annoying, but it can pay off. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs. — Mohammad Hamid Ansari Copy Share Image
[...] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people. — Thein Sein Copy Share Image
I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives. — David McCallum Copy Share Image
The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected. — Bob McDonnell Copy Share Image
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“You can begin a story in the middle and create confusion by striking out boldly, backward and forward. You can be modern, put aside… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“They had tried doing it by themselves in her room with a cheap onion, but it wasn't the same. You needed an audience. It… — Günter Grass Copy Share Image