Citizen Quotes

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

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

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

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

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

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

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

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

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

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

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

National Transformation must begin with every citizen of the land.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

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

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

~ William Marshall

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

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

~ Tracey Bond

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

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.

~ Buzz Aldrin

Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

The average citizen in this county has more intelligence and sense in his little finger than the editor of 'The New York Times' has in his whole head.

~ George Wallace

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

~ Jeff Cooper

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

That's part of being a real citizen: always questioning your leadership, not only about what it is doing in your own country, but what it is doing elsewhere. Because it is connected.

~ Raoul Peck

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

~ Jesse Ventura

I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.

~ Tommy Wiseau

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

~ Jesse Ventura

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

~ Morley Safer

I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.

~ Bharati Mukherjee

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.

~ Bob Riley

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

~ Jeff Cooper

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

~ Satchel Paige

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.

~ Alexander Cockburn

Whether we start with a provisional status and legal permanent residence... or we set up some other way to assimilate legally, you can't ever put in something that says, 'You can never become a citizen.' That's un-American.

~ Jeff Denham

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

~ Diogenes