Citizens Quotes - Page 17

• The parliament is the supreme decision-making and legislative body in any democracy. It reflects the collective desires of the citizens and makes laws.

  Ziauddin Sardar

  Law, Decision, Democracy

  Source: secularpakistan.wordpress.com

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

  Socrates

  World, Goodwill, Nationality

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• As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.

  Abdul Kalam

  Technology, And Love, India

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (2003). “Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India”, p.196, Penguin Books India

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• War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  War, Men, Soldier

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• I understand the frustration of the community, i want citizens to know exactly how it happened, and if necessary, I will ensure that we hold the right people accountable.

  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

  Frustration, People, Community

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• Watching our entire country implode under the self-serving ideologies of those so eager to claim everything but the Constitution as their guide leaves at least half of us without a home. We may live on the same land, but our nation and the citizens of that nation have been exiled into a national wilderness.

  Larisa Alexandrovna

  Country, Home, Self

  "You Are an American". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2005.

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• What do you do when other countries' intelligence agencies give you information and you aren't entirely certain about its source? Simply ignore it? That's impossible. We have a duty to guarantee the safety of our citizens.

  Angela Merkel

  Country, Agency, Safety

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a solid citizen, the embodiment of hard work and rugged individualism. You're no criminal. The criminal is the guy who comes up short, who gets caught, who fails to adopt a respectable cover.

  Luc Sante

  Hard Work, Guy, Criminals

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• In professions where the criteria of professionalism, expertise, good manners and ethics apply, the gender aspect, i.e., whether a person is a man or woman, is not relevant at all. What is important is that citizens' confidence in politicians and the politics is strong enough to make politicians proud of their profession.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Strong, Men, Good Man

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I use the phrase "fellow citizen" all the time when referring to the - people always say, "The American people, the American people." I prefer the phrase fellow citizen because there's a power in that, there's a responsibility, there's a duty in using that phrase fellow citizen.

  Tavis Smiley

  Responsibility, People, Phrases

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue an aggressive foreign policy, so he can serve his people the fairy tale of Russian pride and regaining its strength as a major power.

  Garry Kasparov

  Pride, People, Fairy Tale

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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