Citizens Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits…

— Thomas Jefferson

Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are here in…

— Stephan A. Hoeller

Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics...…

— Emile Durkheim

We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.

— Augusto Boal

We are bound by ideals that teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these ideals. Every citizen must…

— George W. Bush

How Human beings are, that is how the society will be. So, creating human beings who are flexible and willing to look at everything…

— Jaggi Vasudev

That is how our nation has been built - by a partnership between citizen and government, between individual and society, between a family and…

— Ram Nath Kovind

A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just…

— Henry Giroux

Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“human societies always define themselves by their narrowest possible interests.That they are exclusive not inclusive.”

— Joel Shepherd

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

— Oscar Wilde

You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging

— Valery Giscard d'Estaing