Citizen Quotes

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
Christopher Lasch

Same, Historical, Consumer

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
Patti Smith

May, Artist, Touch

Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.
Mitch Daniels

Real, Smoking, Few

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Yourself, Voting, Express

I am a United States citizen and I vote.
Martha Plimpton

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
Alfred North Whitehead

Bad, Justice, Used

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
John Cusack

Great, Movies, Dad

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.
Nigel Farage

Down, Trying, Put

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
Harold Pinter

Country, Thinks

Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
Barbara Jordan

Person, American, Her

You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.
Roger Ebert

Long, Eyes, Away

The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?
J. C. Watts

Time, Past, Two

Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.
Chris Christie

Care, End, Greatest

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.
Gil Scott-Heron

Respect, Live, Long

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.
Antonio Banderas

Love, Country, Become

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
Ludwig von Mises

Used, Anyone, Whether

I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen.
Caroline Kennedy

Work, Country, Elections

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Ramsey Clark

Person, Between, Public

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.
Alan Dershowitz

Religion, Become, Anybody

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.
Mitch Daniels

Freedom, Free, Wrong

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
Eldridge Cleaver

Struggle, Dream, American

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.
Ron Wyden

Future, Waiting, Law

I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year.
Isabel Allende

Change, Home, Everything

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.
Harrison Ford

Morning, Hard, Tell

And 'Queer Eye' is fascinating. It has a pinch-me-I'm-dreaming quality. It's very bourgeois, of course, and much more about the liberation of the consumer than the liberation of the democratic citizen.
Tony Kushner

Quality, Democratic, Eye

The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.
Tony Kushner

Good, Husband, Friend

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

Change, Subject, Pick

I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
Wallace Shawn

Said, Team, Child

My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit.
Grover Norquist

Guy, Ideal, Permit

You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.
Eric Liu

Live, American, Defend

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