Quotes of: Citizen Keyword

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

Rebecca Solnit

I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.

Todd Haynes

While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.

Boris Trajkovski

These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.

Matt Dillon

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Francis Bacon

We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

Ian Goldin

I would never sacrifice my individual beliefs as a citizen to my corporate responsibilities.

George W. Romney

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Gloria Steinem

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

John Marshall

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

John Ralston Saul

This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.

Jalal Talabani

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

Elihu Root

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Paul Robeson

Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.

Boris Trajkovski

Charles Foster Kane: The news goes on for 24 hours a day.

Citizen Kane

Jedediah Leland: You still eating? Charles Foster Kane: I'm still hungry.

Citizen Kane

Jonas Cantrell: The hard part isn't making the decision. It's living with it.

Law Abiding Citizen

Nick Rice: Why does anybody tunnel *into* prison?

Law Abiding Citizen

Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.

Henry Rollins

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

Charlie Gonzalez