Citizen Quotes
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“It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”
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“Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.”
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“War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?”
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“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.”
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“She gets all her old cars and tools from places you don’t want your daughters to visit. And Rashad Gaumont certainly doesn’t want her to visit Magic Mama, the not-evolved-enough, middle-aged man who lives in the Junk Land and works in the Old City. “He’s not a citizen! He lives in a bus! So what if he made it himself? So what if he teaches you about machines? Just don’t meet him.”
“Why?” Kusha used to ask Rashad, and she’d always get the same answer: “The unevolved kind brings chaos and wars.” ”
― The High Auction
“Why?” Kusha used to ask Rashad, and she’d always get the same answer: “The unevolved kind brings chaos and wars.” ”
― The High Auction
“When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.”
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“For the state is everything here. It nourishes the citizen, raises his children, cares for him, judges and condemns him; and of this state I am merely the first citizen.”
― Aline and Valcour, or, the Philosophical Novel, Vol. II
― Aline and Valcour, or, the Philosophical Novel, Vol. II
“They're not cruel; they're just pig-headed and provincial. The fact that you have feelings never occurs to them.”
― Citizen of the Galaxy
― Citizen of the Galaxy
“Corrupt politicians are only symptom, real disease is populist democracy.”
― Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
― Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“It is so sad that Africans, we only unite to do bad things. To break the law. To loot. To destroy someone's life or to bring others down. We never unite to fight our oppressors. We never unite to bring solutions. We never unite to support each others business and we never unite to eradicate poverty or problems we have in our society.”
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“3 Things that destroy the country or the state .
People who are leading it.
People who are not informed.
People who are informed with wrong information.”
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People who are leading it.
People who are not informed.
People who are informed with wrong information.”
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“Ones people see the eyes of the law. They will stop respecting the law. Eyes of the law is when the law treated other people special and different than others.”
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“I don't know what is in this money that you are punishing other struggling citizens for, it's not like you're going to go to heaven with all the money.”
― Thorns in the desert
― Thorns in the desert
“May we have the heart of our Mother, while retaining Manhood and preserving the child within.
Highest potential.”
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Highest potential.”
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“Having had negative encounters with police officers, every time I hear of one being killed by a citizen I think to myself ‘What did the police do to them to make them kill?’.”
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“Police officers would be wise to remember that every citizen they interact with is their boss.”
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“If Heraclitus was a Macedonian, his philosophy would be : No Macedonian ever steps in the same native country twice. For it’s not the same country name and he’s not the same citizen.”
― Yet Another New Land
― Yet Another New Land
“He wanted drama and showdown and righteous calls for justice from concerned citizens. Instead, he got America.”
― Bewilderment
― Bewilderment
“Незабаром всі країни світу почнуть виготовляти покоління корисних машин, а не повноцінних громадян, що здатні самостійно мислити, критикувати традиційний уклад та розуміти значення страждань і досягнень інших людей.”
― Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
― Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
“Перерахую здібності, що пов'язані з гуманітарними науками та мистецтвом: здатність до критичного мислення; здатність відірватися від приватних інтересів і поглянути на світові проблеми з точки зору "громадянина світу"; і, нарешті, здатність співчутливо ставитися до труднощів іншої людини.”
― Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
― Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
“A nation is great when brothers and sisters of all backgrounds can live together as free citizens.”
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