Citizens Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.

  Matt Drudge

  Voice, Eras, Reporters

  Speech to the National Press Club on Media and the Internet, delivered 2 June 1998

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• State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

  Ernie Fletcher

  Government, Progress, Needs

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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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• I think I've been a great citizen.

  O. J. Simpson

  Thinking, House

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

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• All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

  Andrew Jackson

  Independent, Rights, Constitution

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

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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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• Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

  Richard Perle

  Rights, Community, Claims

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.192, Random House

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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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• When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Jobs, Law, Police

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• Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

  Nick Mancuso

  Country, Growing Up, Two Nations

  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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• 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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• Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

  Karl Kraus

  Sorry, Law, Abortion

  Karl Kraus (1977). “No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus”, Frederick Ungar

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• The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

  Christopher Lasch

  Historical, Development, Clients

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.235, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• 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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• An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

  Patti Smith

  Artist, House, Ordinary

  "The Wisdom of Patti Smith" by Victoria Dawson Hoff, www.elle.com. December 30, 2013.

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• It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

  Wangari Maathai

  Differences, Tree, Littles

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• Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Land, Drawing, Soldier

  'Dreamers' (1918)

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• We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.

  Viktor Yanukovych

  Ukraine, President, Together

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• The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Travel, Space, 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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