67 Quotes About Citizen

Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this. Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor. Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded. Plato: That is correct. Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders. E.a. Bucchianeri

Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil. Suzy Kassem

Trump’s America is not America: not today’s or tomorrow’s, but yesterday’s. Trump’s America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is a vast expanse of darkness and desolation. And that is a vision of America that most of the people in this country cannot and will not abide. Charles M. Blow

Our government says people must not take law in their own hands, But has given the law in the hands of people who in power. That is why people who are in power are always corrupt, arrogant, violent, Aggressive, selfish, and don't care about anyone. They get away with all the bad things they do that Is criminating unlawful and injustice Unknown

I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans. Amelia Boynton Robinson

Leaders don't cry for what country can do for them for free. They dream about what they can do for country at high cost. Israelmore Ayivor

Freedom is willpower to act for a change. Lailah Gifty Akita

Jesus Christ lives in all people. We are citizens of one world. Lailah Gifty Akita

You have a great talent and a great role in the world. Lailah Gifty Akita

Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt. Lailah Gifty Akita

The failure of the nation lies in the failure of its citizens. Lailah Gifty Akita

Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country’s well-being. Lailah Gifty Akita

You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean. Lailah Gifty Akita

An anarchist government somehow creates an impression in the hearts of citizens that no one cares. Amit Kalantri

An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government. Amit Kalantri

Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics. Amit Kalantri

Although we, as Christians, are living in Sodom, we are not to become citizens of Sodom.. The story of Sodom is God's reminder to the modern world Sunday Adelaja

A true democratic society is supposed to serve its people, not big businesses. The welfare of its citizens, not corporate pockets. But when you have corporations buying the seats of our political leaders, who do you think they will serve? Suzy Kassem

To an extent, we get the big businesses we deserve. No conversation about the role of business in society is complete without considering the role of the public. Ultimately it is the public — as consumers, as citizens — who create the environment in which business operates. Jon Miller

A country whose citizens do not read is already late because "reading" is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of the learnt knowledge is the gateway to personal transformation. If you don't read, you have not yet begun anything! Israelmore Ayivor

The citizens of the land, the peoples of the nation must be made strong in their convictions of these values. These values and virtues must become the wealth of the people, they must become their pride. They must be reflected in their lifestyle, in their film and movie industries. This value system must be ingrained in their educational system. They must be proclaimed in their pulpits. Homes and families must be built on the wealth of these virtues. Sunday Adelaja

We will be a mighty nation, if we build each other. Lailah Gifty Akita

He citizens must begin to work to clean the city and country of any dirt. Lailah Gifty Akita

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people. Franklin D. Roosevelt

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us. Barack Obama

My father once told me that American democracy is a people’s democracy at heart, and that it therefore can be as great as the American people, or as fallible. It depends on all of us. But our system is more fragile than we know. To sustain it, we must always cherish the ideals on which it was founded, remain vigilant against the dark forces that threaten it, and actively engage in the process of making it work. . George Takei

The government tends to act like a corporation treating the public as its consumers rather than its citizens Fairclough Norman

A government that kills its own citizens is like a parent that kills their own kids aka filicide or like a mother that kills her unborn by abortion . Youns Hussein

When the citizens of a nation have been made to love and adhere to values and virtues, then they make better choices. Sunday Adelaja

.Ensuring that young people get the right information that will enable them make the right choices is a responsibility all citizens must take seriously Oche Otorkpa

The ambiance of every environment in a country is the value system of the given nation. It is that culture that influences how citizens of a nation react, respond and behave among themselves in regards to politics, commerce, family and social life. Sunday Adelaja

When God speaks about equity, that choice of word, makes us understand that God is not referring to the leaders of the land or the elite this time around. He is actually talking about how ordinary citizens of the land relate to each other in fairness and impartiality. Sunday Adelaja

When God speaks about equity, that choice of word, makes us understand that God is not referring to the leaders of the land or the elite this time around. He is actually talking about how ordinary citizens of the land relate to each other in fairness and impartiality Sunday Adelaja

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment. George Washington

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guarantied by the supreme law of the land are involved. John Marshall Harlan

In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people. Steven Magee

Never forsake your motherland. Lailah Gifty Akita

If the authorities under various false pretenses, continue curtailing the rights of citizens, so that they merely become serfs to a handful of multinational companies, a global rebellion of ordinary people against super capitalism is certainly not inconceivable. A.J. Beirens

If a nation blames other nations for their problems, most likely the citizens of the nations will do the same thing. Debasish Mridha

A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good. Lailah Gifty Akita

It is a tragedy, at rate at which EBOLA VIRUS is spreading in West Africa. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus. Lailah Gifty Akita

Most USA citizens never realize that the systems of public protection are essentially useless until they try to use them. At that point they learn the hard way that government agencies like OSHA, FCC, FDA, police internal affairs, disability, and the like do not work for them. Steven Magee

It is impossible to get rid of the bondage of slavery, if we do not start acting as free citizens of our country Sunday Adelaja

Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization. Steven Magee

You're only hurting yourself. Besides, the citizens like blood, don't they? They smell it. Laura Ruby

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off. Cole Younger

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated. Ryszard Kapuscinski

Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear. Stephen Kinzer

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. Alexis De Tocqueville

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. Seamus Heaney

The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens. Ted Cruz

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. James Madison

The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like many of our citizens did. John Lewis

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper. Bobby Moynihan

As it turns out, American-made technology had helped Mubarak and his security state collect, compile, and parse vast amounts of data about everyday citizens. Rebecca MacKinnon

We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect. George Takei

The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead. Donald Trump

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens. Arlen Specter

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens. Daniel Webster

I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens. Binyavanga Wainaina