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 asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno 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

Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

~ Suzy Kassem

We must submit to God's righteous rule.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Our government says people must not take law in their own hands, But has given the law in the hands of people who in power. That is why people who are in power are always corrupt, arrogant, violent, Aggressive, selfish, and don't care about anyone. They get away with all the bad things they do that Is criminating unlawful and injustice

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

~ Robert Mckee

If there is any society where the leaders lack the knowledge and the importance of justice, then oppression will be a common neighbor of the citizens.

~ Sunday Adelaja

In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having rights and privileges as citizens of that nation.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If it has to be done, take the responsibility to do it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Ineffective leadership, is the plight of followers who anoint power to the autocratic persons who's visions are not founded but are rather arbitrary in their nature.

~ Wayne Chirisa

The hunger for change is the desire to make a change.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans.

~ Amelia Boynton Robinson

The holy country is occupied by holy citizens.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must live as people with great hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Leaders don't cry for what country can do for them for free. They dream about what they can do for country at high cost.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Freedom is willpower to act for a change.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We volunteer to work for the love and joy of service.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Jesus Christ lives in all people. We are citizens of one world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A knowledgeable citizen is a powerful citizen because knowledge is power! Make your nation a powerful one... Keep reading to acquire more knowledge! Let books be your friends, never disappoint them by not studying them frequently!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You have a great talent and a great role in the world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The failure of the nation lies in the failure of its citizens.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country’s well-being.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

An anarchist government somehow creates an impression in the hearts of citizens that no one cares.

~ Amit Kalantri

An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government.

~ Amit Kalantri

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

Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics.

~ Amit Kalantri

Although we, as Christians, are living in Sodom, we are not to become citizens of Sodom. . The story of Sodom is God's reminder to the modern world

~ Sunday Adelaja

A true democratic society is supposed to serve its people, not big businesses. The welfare of its citizens, not corporate pockets. But when you have corporations buying the seats of our political leaders, who do you think they will serve?

~ Suzy Kassem

To an extent, we get the big businesses we deserve. No conversation about the role of business in society is complete without considering the role of the public. Ultimately it is the public – as consumers, as citizens – who create the environment in which business operates.

~ Jon Miller

A country whose citizens do not read is already late because reading is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of the learnt knowledge is the gateway to personal transformation. If you don't read, you have not yet begun anything!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time. Moreover, these material wealth don’t just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of the nation

~ Sunday Adelaja

The citizens of the land, the peoples of the nation must be made strong in their convictions of these values. These values and virtues must become the wealth of the people, they must become their pride. They must be reflected in their lifestyle, in their film and movie industries. This value system must be ingrained in their educational system. They must be proclaimed in their pulpits. Homes and families must be built on the wealth of these virtues.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We will be a mighty nation, if we build each other.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

he citizens must begin to work to clean the city and country of any dirt.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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