C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.”
“Citizens hold a powerful tool: the ability to choose civility at the ballot box. That choice has ripple effects. When we elect leaders who practice self-control, respect & collaboration, we get stronger communities.”
Source: Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It
“Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.”
“Citizens of a modern society need [...] more than that ordinary "common sense" which was defined by Stuart Chase as that which tells you that the world is flat.”
Source: Language in Thought and Action
“Citizens of earth could end all wars in a year - boycott all tax-filing unless your governments cease all defense activities for good.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic”
Source: Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
“Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans are how much vacation time they will have an how early they can retire and be supported by the state.”
Source: Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
“Citizens of modernity, consumers of violence as spectacle, adepts of proximity without risk, are schooled to be cynical about the possibility of sincerity. Some people will do anything to keep themselves from being moved.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy.”
Source: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
“Citizens often think of a state's interests in terms of the promotion of ideals such as democracy, a particular way of life, or other values which they endorse or see as part of their historical continuity and identity. In this domain as in others values are not fixed, and so a state's interests are dynamic and in a constant state of negotiation and construction.”
“Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.”
“Citizens United said that transparency would be the disinfectant, but (c)(4)'s are warm, wet, moist incubators. There is no disinfectant.”
“Citizens were truly free when they could engage 'what is just and good without fear.' Liberty was therefore a positive act of will. Liberty was not an 'enemy of all authority' but 'a civil and moral' quality that made it possible for individuals, singly or in groups, to realize their potential. Tocqueville, who believed in the possibilities of human achievement, embraced the idea of liberty as capable of fostering equality. With liberty empowering individuals, equality could spread.
There began the great challenge of modern history, that of balancing liberty and equality. Tocqueville kept arguing in successive formulations that the two concepts of liberty and equality, so easily at odds, actually touch and join. For one cannot be free without being equal to others; and one cannot be equal to others, in a positive sense, without being free. For Tocqueville, the combination of equality and liberty was the best possible human condition, while equality without liberty was among the worst, as he had argued in the prison report.
Although Tocqueville asserted that equality and liberty ideally should be mutually reinforcing in democratic life, he recognized that men loved equality passionately but often resented the kind of demanding liberty that democracy required. It was simply too much work to set positive liberty in motion and sustain it. Indeed, Tocqueville underscored that 'nothing is harder than the apprenticeship of liberty.' As a result, Tocqueville charged, too many accept 'equality in servitude' (the result of leveling) and prefer it over the more demanding condition of 'inequality in freedom.' Only by acquiring the habit of liberty, Tocqueville argued throughout the book, could a democratic society make creative use of equality and liberty was the precondition for the dogma of popular sovereignty to 'emerge from the towns,' take possession of the government,' and become 'law of laws.”
Source: The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
“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.”
“Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the government demands. In the meantime, their initiative and self-respect are destroyed.”
“Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.”
Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
“Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.”
“Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.”
“Citizens without brain leads to democracy on drugs.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Citizens without fear are citizens without border.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?”
Source: Virtue and Terror
“Citizens, it is time to take our country back from the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite.”
“Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.”
“Citizens, the priority now is to recover trust between the Egyptian - amongst the Egyptians and to have trust and confidence in our economy and international reputation and the fact that the change that we have embarked on will carry on and there's no going back to the old days.”
“Citizens, you will elect me - I will be your leader.”
“Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world...
No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter
with a clear conscience break his contract with society.
To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen,
to do more than your share under it is noble.”
“Citizenship consists in the service of the country.”
Source: Speeches
“Citizenship has not delivered Indigenous Australians the same quality of life other Australians expect. Basic human rights involve health, housing, education, employment, economic opportunity, and equality before the law, and respect for cultural identity and cultural diversity. These human rights must be capable of being enjoyed otherwise they are empty gestures.”
“Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia, and, still worse, to any applicant from Arkansas.”
Source: Prejudices Fourth Series
“Citizenship in the 21st century requires more than paying your taxes and voting and occasionally running for office. That even if you're never in political office, you have political responsibilities. You can make your society stronger and better.”
“Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.”
Source: The Face of War
“Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.”
Source: Starship Troopers
“Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power.”
“Citizenship is not a spectator sport.”
“Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.”
“Citizenship is the right to have rights.”
“Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's a very destructive ideology.”
“Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote.***”
“Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say 'we are not afraid,' and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.”
“Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.”
“Citizenship to me is more than a piece of paper. Citizenship is also about character. I am an American. We're just waiting for our country to recognize it.”
“Citizenship without emotional attachment is the civic equivalent of a one-night stand.”
“Citrulline converts into arginine and nitric oxide in the human body.”
Source: COVID Supplements
“Citties are taken by the eares.”
“City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.”
“City diversity represents accident and chaos.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.”
“City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur”
“City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.”