Quotes of: Good-citizen Keyword

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

Mary Karr

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Adlai E. Stevenson

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

Bao Dai

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

Troy Vincent

I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.

Vicente Fox

Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.

Viktor Yushchenko

More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

Zac Goldsmith

You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

Jesse Ventura

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.

Naomi Wolf

After Portia has trapped Shylock through his own insistence upon the letter of the law of Contract, she produces another law by which any alien who conspires against the life of a Venetian citizen forfeits his goods and places his life at the Doge’...

The Dyer's Hand

What did “good government” really mean? Langlie and his brotherhood promised an end to political corruption. (There’s no evidence that Langlie ever even took a drink, much less a bribe.) The days of “honest graft” were over, at least for a ...

The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

Father Barry: Some people think the Crucifixion only took place on Calvary. They better wise up! Taking Joey Doyle's life to stop him from testifying is a crucifixion. And dropping a sling on Kayo Dugan because he was ready to spill his guts tomorrow...

On the Waterfront

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

Bureaucracy

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

Asterios Polyp

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.

Meditations

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones

Long Walk to Freedom

In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.

Jason Alexander

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.

Sheldon Jackson

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

Phyllis Schlafly

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.

Rebecca MacKinnon