Citizens Quotes - Page 6

• To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Democracy, Importance, Eloquence

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.660, Routledge

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• You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Son, House, Honest

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

  Albert Camus

  Taxation, Indirect, Notes

  "Caligula", act 1, sc. 8, Pléiade, 1962.

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• Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

  Jeff Cooper

  Rifles, Subjects, Picks

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• 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

  Design, Today, Ordinary

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• Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.

  Marty Meehan

  Thinking, Troops, Okay

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• A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Law, Class, Government

  Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

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• It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

  Paul Begala

  House, Answers, Taught

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• It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.

  Vic Snyder

  Senior, Important, Age

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• The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

  J. William Fulbright

  Country, Patriotic, House

  "Senator Fulbright: Portrait of a Public Philosopher". Book by Tristram Coffin, 1966.

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• So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Mexican, House, Manhattan

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• I think I've been a great citizen.

  O. J. Simpson

  Thinking, House

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Home, House, Want

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• There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

  Linda Tripp

  Fighting, Media, Average

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• I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

  Jerry Hall

  House

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• Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world...
  No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter
  with a clear conscience break his contract with society.
  To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen,
  to do more than your share under it is noble.

  Isaiah Bowman

  Strength, Education, Respect

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• Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

  Vaclav Havel

  Respect, Peace, Freedom

  "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Years, House, Heaven

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• I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.

  Bianca Jagger

  Class, House, Want

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• The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

  Laura Miller

  Dream, Sacrifice, Cities

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• I am not the president; instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

  Martin Sheen

  Office, House, President

  "Commentary A Celebrity, but First a Citizen". articles.latimes.com. March 17, 2003.

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• Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.

  Raquel Welch

  House, Proud, Latina

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• Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, House

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.257, Algora Publishing

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• So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Pain, Cutting, Able

  "American Morning" with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2003.

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• Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Government, Important

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