Quotes of: Private-citizen Keyword

If you have mindfulness, if you feel safe, you recognize that you have plenty of conditions to be happy already, and that you don't need to run into the future in order to get a few more conditions.

Good Citizens: Creating Enlightened Society

Impartial, compassionate, brave, and understanding…these are the traits that come with putting the Noble Eightfold Path into practice. By following this path, anyone can become the kind of leader the Buddha hoped to see—a leader of peace.

Buddhism and Politics: Citizens, Politicians, and the Noble Eightfold Path

When there’s a vacuum of public input, lobbyists usually fill it. But when there’s public input, the people usually win.

Take Back Your Government: A Citizen's Guide to Making Your Government Work For You

[I]f the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to exe...

Noah Webster

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citiz...

Maya Angelou

Vice President Joe Biden believes that illegal immigrants are citizens. Obama believes that some Americans who join Islamist groups are citizens, while others are not. Who is an American? Whomever the executive branch deems an American. Who isn't? It...

Ben Shapiro

Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up an...

Bernie Sanders

[talking about how to disable the tanks] Captain Miller: You take a standard G.I sock, cram it with as much Composition B as it can hold, rig up a simple fuse, then coat the whole thing with axel grease. Now when you throw it, it should stick. Its a ...

Saving Private Ryan

That's where your definition of attachment comes in. I'm in a monogamous relationship with two people.

Falling Immortality: Casey Holden, Private Investigator

The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.

A Fine and Private Place

Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal.

A Fine and Private Place

It's like marriage. The race there is between total knowledge of each other and death. If death comes first, it's considered a successful marriage.

A Fine and Private Place

Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.

The God Delusion

Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat.

Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

An American Childhood

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

The Secret Key to Heaven: The Vital Importance of Private Prayer

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is more terrible, or precious.

A Private History of Awe

Even the disciples, who at times could be dense as bricks, realized that the true neighbor was the one who showed mercy to a stranger.

A Private History of Awe

What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.

A Private History of Awe