Citizens Quotes

“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 a
sculptor.
Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they have
no 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, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“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

“Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively tiny oligarchy of extremely clever financial criminals and their castrato henchmen in government, whose job is to be good actors on TV and put on a good show.”
― Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

“No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“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

“When bad news is riding high and despair in fashion, when loud mouths and corruption seem to own center stage, when some keep crying that the country is going to the dogs, remember it’s always been going to the dogs in the eyes of some, and that 90 percent, or more, of the people are good people, generous-hearted, law-abiding, good citizens who get to work on time, do a good job, love their country, pay their taxes, care about their neighbors, care about their children’s education, and believe, rightly, as you do, in the ideals upon which our way of life is founded.”
― David McCullough, The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

“The United States is an easy country to love because you can take it on faith that, at some point in every waking hour of the day, there is among your fellow citizens a vast exaltation of opinions that test the outer boundaries of the Crazoid.”
― Charles P. Pierce, Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free

“It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.”
― Robert H. Jackson

“What about the contacts your mum had?” his dad asked.
“I rang and spoke to four very polite computers who gave me all these options and then cut out on me. Then I tried the post office, because they were advertising, and I spoke to another computer. Very rude, that one. Don’t think it recognized ‘Are you shitting me?’ as an option.”
“You know why that is?”
“Why is that, Dominic?” Tom had asked drolly, because he knew he was going to be told why.
“Because we don’t live in a society anymore, Tom. We live in an economy. We’re not citizens. We’re customers. That’s what this government’s done to us.”
― Melina Marchetta, The Piper's Son

“Everyone who receives protection from the society owes a return for the benefit.”
― John Stuart Mill, The Corn Laws

“La más común y duradera fuente de fraccionamiento ha sido la variada y desigual distribución de la propiedad”
― James Madison

“You are worse than a corrupt politician if you don't vote, because tomorrow. You will be the first to complain about bad service delivery and how bad the country is being run by bad leaders and criminals.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Like many things, politics only exists in the minds of the citizens.”
― Jack Freestone

“Populism has no future in Macedonia. We are running out of people.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Journalistic sanctity means nothing when it is not fighting against injustices done to citizens”
― Chaudhry Ahsan Premee

“When a country places the well-being of its citizens at the forefront of its priorities, it paves the way for a brighter, more compassionate, and truly great society”
― George Stamatis

“It is within the hearts and minds of ordinary citizens that the seeds of change take root, birthing a new narrative of governance that transcends the self-serving agendas of politicians and oligarchs.”
― Rove Monteux, What is Wrong with Society Today

“History has shown that even the mightiest of manipulators can be brought to their knees by the power of a united and resolute citizenry.”
― Rove Monteux, What is Wrong with Society Today

“The country places war far higher than the health and wellbeing of its citizens.”
― Steven Magee

“Government and politicians are concern about what we say about them on social media. Rather than being concern on the issues we on social media. They don’t care about our issues. They care about their image.
How will that make them look. That is why they only attend to matters that will give them public stunt or good PRs. They don’t care about fixing the issues we are having.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“And as Jasmine looked around her, at their people, joined in this moment of collective grief and love--- she felt a surge of pride for her country.
I will rise to the task before me, she silently promised her father. I will give my all to Agrabah, and we will continue to prosper in peace. I'll be the kind of sultana they will love... the way they loved you.”
― Alexandra Monir, Realm of Wonders

“Citizenry is the problem,
Citizenry is the answer.
When citizenry decides on peace,
Albeit reluctant, world leaders wither.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“The character of any political system rests in the degree to which it insures the freedoms of the citizens that govern those who govern.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Nothing is more dangerous in political life than the abandonment of reason. The intellect must remain the controlling, regulating force in human affairs.”
― Kurt Sontheimer

“Everybody is a terrorist,
till you see the reformist
(The Sonnet)

Everybody is a president,
till you see the first servant.
Everybody is king kong,
till emerges the first sapiens.

Everybody is marconi,
till you meet the Nikola.
Everybody is prime minister,
till you see the transformer.

Everybody is mercenary,
till you see the tsunami.
Everybody is a godman,
till awakens commoner godly.

Everybody is police,
till comes the vessel of peace.
Everybody is a terrorist,
till you see the reformist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Lions don't leave society in the hands of government. Government is second in command - civilians, chief commander.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“A governance model steeped in ethical practices earns public trust and legitimacy. When citizens witness their government’s unwavering commitment to ethical standards, it reinforces the foundations of a stable, harmonious society.”
― Abdellatif Raji, Heaven Is Under the Feet of Governments: Steering Nations With Maqasid

“To lift the world is a labor of love,
Still it strikes strain on mind at times.
That's where reformer stands out in crowd,
No strain clouds long a mission-driven mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“A nation is great when brothers and sisters of all backgrounds can live together as free citizens.”
― Aegelis