Citizen Quotes

The corrupt system made the ordinary citizen absolutely powerless and without rights

I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world.

Paul said I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus a city in Cilicia a citizen of no mean city.

Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.

To live with unforgiveness is to become a captive cultured citizen whose taxation is that of demonically ticketed torment.

Tracey Bond

As long as ordinary citizens are as corrupt as the politicians in their daily lifestyle, the country will continue to suffer.

Sunday Adelaja

― all you have to do is kill every citizen at birth and then, by God, you're left with the perfect ―

William Marshall

In the long run, success or failure will beconditioned upon the way in which the average man, the average women, does his or her duty, first in the ordinary, every-day affairs of life, and next in those great occasional cries which call for heroic virtues. The average citizen must be a good citizen if our republics are to succeed. The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

National Transformation must begin with every citizen of the land.

Sunday Adelaja

How can the nation be mightier, without unity of its citizens?

Lailah Gifty Akita

The decisions of citizens either in matters of private business or political life of the nation, are directly related to the prevailing value system of the nation

Sunday Adelaja

There is at least one advantage to being an Indonesian citizen: With this country's expanse of land and even greater expanse of sea, it's not difficult finding space for one's grave.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

If a country complains that they don’t have good leaders, those leaders are only as a result of the prevailing value system that every citizen of that country has been exposed to.

Sunday Adelaja

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power

Wael Ghonim

Personal Responsibility of each citizen before the nation, is usually well defined in all developed nations.

Sunday Adelaja

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

Apathy.The reason you may wake up one day being not only a 2nd class citizen, but a criminal because of who you are - and then wonder why 'somebody' didn't do something when there was still time?

Christina Engela

Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men, carried to the summit of the edifice, draw and put up the higher floors, the ordinary artists scattered in the lower floors, or hidden in the obscurity of the foundations, must only seek to improve what cleverer hands have created.

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

The time to clean our city of any dirt begins individual action for collective clean communities.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Borrowing other people’s culture and adopting other people’s way of life does destroy nation’s self-respect which is the greatest asset a true citizen can enjoy more than food and clothes, more than all amenities and more than military glory. You can adopt a system of government and a way of life, but can you adopt the past history, travail and tradition out of which that system of government and a way of life were evolved? Can we adopt King Charles, King John, Magna Carta and civil wars and Cromwell as our own? They can always say “We evolved a system and a way of life”, but we must always sing in refrain, “We borrowed them”. Adopting a culture is not the same as adopting the use of a gadget. It is like tying other peoples’ mangoes to your tree, while plucking and throwing away your own. How absurd!

Manasa Rao

Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

A country cannot change, be transformed or developed as long as there is no truth and honesty as an everyday principle among the citizens of the nation.

Sunday Adelaja

The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens.

Sunday Adelaja

In a country of ideas, consciousness is its' citizen.

Toba Beta

A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.

Suzy Kassem

Your patriotism is not measured by what your country can do for you. It's all about what you can do for your country for your own benefit and for the benefit of unborn generations!

Israelmore Ayivor

Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public.

Amit Kalantri

Politics doesn’t mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people.

Amit Kalantri

Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.

David Marusek

The failure of the citizens to pray for the nation will lead to its collapse.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A responsible citizen is the one that sees something wrong in the society, something he is not satisfied with or that he cannot agree with and responds not by blaming the government or leaders. But by designing ways and means of bringing a lasting solution to the issues at hand

Sunday Adelaja

Nowadays, a simple faulty brake light traffic stop, can get a black person killed. It's better to fix the broken light bulb, then having to face and cooperate with a senseless police officer.

Anthony Liccione

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.

Charles A. Beard

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

And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you.

Claudia Rankine

Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians.

Amit Kalantri

If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

H.L. Mencken

As a citizen of the world, I will not confine myself within the gates of one nation or religion. I will not identify with only one species, sex, class or race; for I am a complete being, and that means that I embrace all of humanity, all of nature, every star and universe within the greater universe as a part of me. If we were all created in the image of God, and his love is unconditional, then why can't we love all living things with the same eyes as God? How can anybody say that one race is more superior than another, when we were all created in God's reflection?

Suzy Kassem

The past is the occupational realm of historians—their daily work—and scholars have debated what their stance toward these social issues should be. As citizens and professionals, historians may naturally form a desire, as Carl Becker puts it, “to do work in the world.” That is, they might aspire to write history that is not only of scholarly value but also has a salutary impact in society. Becker defines the appropriate impact and the historian’s proper role as “correcting and rationalizing for common use Mr. Everyman’s mythological adaption of what actually happened.”That process is never simple, however, when the subject involves divisions so deep that they led to civil wars. One issue that inevitably leads to controversy is the extent to which history involves moral judgment. Another is the power of myths, exerting their influence on society and acting in opposition to the findings of historical research [190—91].

Paul D. Escott

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

The greatest part of our existence enfold in service of humanity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

Lucille Ball

Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.

Suzy Kassem

You are not white,but a rainbow of colors.You are not black,but golden.You are not just a nationality,but a citizen of the world.You are not just for the right or left,but for what is right over the wrong.You are not just rich or poor,but always wealthy in the mind and heart.You are not perfect, but flawed.You are flawed, but you are just.You may just be conscious human,but you are also a magnificentreflection of God.

Suzy Kassem

Until there is equal and fair portion of opportunities apportioned for every citizen, the power structure may need to be restructured.

Sunday Adelaja

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?

Mike Norton

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

Amit Kalantri

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

Amit Kalantri

In a democracy government is the God.

Amit Kalantri

State first, subject second, statesman last.

Amit Kalantri

It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.

E.A. Bucchianeri

I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.

De philosopher DJ Kyos

Children are no longer being parented, but are raised. Thats why they don't have morals, ethics,humanity and manners, because their parents neglected them. We now live in a society that doesnt care about right or wrong.

De philosopher DJ Kyos

When people support you when you have done something wrong. It doesnt mean you are right, but it means those people are promoting their hate , bad behavior or living their bad lives through you.

De philosopher DJ Kyos

If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity .

De philosopher DJ Kyos

Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do.

De philosopher DJ Kyos

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