Citizens Quotes - Page 14

• We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything? More and more is death. In the most affluent societies in the world, for example in the United States of America, a significant percentage of the population is on anti-depressants on a regular basis. If you just withdraw one particular medication from the market, almost half the nation will go crazy. That is not wellbeing. Generally, an American citizen has everything that anyone would dream of.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Dream, Crazy, Ideas

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• I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.

  Sadako Ogata

  Islands, Japan, People

  "Japan should be a peace broker, former UN refugee chief says". Interview with Hiroyuki Akita, asia.nikkei.com. August 19, 2015.

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• You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for one reason or another, one clicks and one doesn't, but it's out of your control completely.

  Woody Allen

  Thieves, Film, Citizen Kane

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• What stands out to me in America was all the police vs. citizens turmoil. It's decades of bad policing, bad schooling, racism, bigotry and other factors finally spilling into mainstream culture. I would like to see America evolve on how the laws are enforced on the streets.

  Henry Rollins

  Law, Mainstream Culture, America

  Source: eluxemagazine.com

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• I've lived many places all over the world, so I've always seen myself as a citizen of the world.

  Trevor Noah

  World

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It is vital that government leaders and financial leaders take heed and broaden their horizons, working to ensure that all citizens have dignified work, education, and healthcare.

  Pope Francis

  Government, Leader, Horizon

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.61, BookBaby

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• My future is in Perth, hopefully as a citizen and I want to be an asset to the country as much as I want to be a part of the community and be a citizen.

  Kevin Wall

  Country, Community, Want

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I dream of a Digital India where technology ensures the Citizen-Government interface is incorruptible.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Technology, Government

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• I dream of a Digital India where Government services are easily and efficiently available to citizens on Mobile devices.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Government, Digital India

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• Government systems suffer from two weaknesses. They are complex. And they are slow. We need to change this. Our systems need to be made sharp, effective, fast and flexible. This requires simplification of processes and having trust in citizens. This needs a Policy Driven State.

  Narendra Modi

  Two, Government, Suffering

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• Let us together serve the Nation. If each citizen takes one step forward, the country takes 125 crore steps forward.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Motivation, Together

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• My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.

  Joseph Bologna

  Senior, Comedian, Bologna

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• Giving people what they want reduces us to consumers instead of treating us like citizens, consumers who are on the prowl for the predictable and comfortable. What we want winds up being suspiciously like what we've already got, more of the same-the cultural equivalent of a warm bath.

  Astra Taylor

  Wind, People, Giving

  Astra Taylor (2014). “The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age”, p.93, Macmillan

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• By the time of the GDR's demise, two in every 13 citizens were informers.

  Luke Harding

  Two, Demise, Informers

  Luke Harding (2014). “The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man”, p.165, Guardian Faber Publishing

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• What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?

  Ann Leckie

  Well Being, Wells, Civilisation

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• If America is truly Israels greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

  Adam Hasner

  Israel, America, Risk

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• Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Criminals, Neglect, States

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• The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination.

  Wendy McElroy

  School, People, Goal

  Wendy McElroy (1982). “Demystifying the State”

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• True citizens of the heavenly city are the best residents of the earthly city.

  Timothy Keller

  Cities, Residents, Heavenly

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• What are we going to do if citizens are disarmed, and the government doesn't obey its own laws?

  Jeff Cooper

  Government, Law, Ifs

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• I believe citizens are beginning to realize that their birthright, a healthy ecosystem, has been stolen, and they want it back.

  Charles Clover

  Believe, Ecosystems, Healthy

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.317, Univ of California Press

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• The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Destiny, Rights, Hands

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• No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

  Aristotle

  Democracy, Injustice, Outrage

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• The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world.

  Chuck D

  World, Best American

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• I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

  Socrates

  World, Goodwill, Nationality

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