Best citizens & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.”

Character Action Political Certain Politics Moral Virtue Produce Citizens Politician Anxiety Performances Fellows Anxious Virtuous Disposition Statesmen Moral Character

Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen, but refers to the idea we entertain of his character.”

“The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.”

States Character Chance United Pay United States Citizens Draws Forgiveness Thirds Crowds Favors Fifty Grants

Author:Bill Vaughan

“As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the abstract, a cartoon capital of a cartoon republic enshrining the falsehoods, half-truths, and delusions that prop up the squishy thing the national character has become--for instance, that we are a nation of families; that we care about our fellow citizens; that history matters; that there is a place called home.”

Source: The geography of nowhere: the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape

“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”

Has Beens Stills Reason Character Passion Failing Citizens Assembly Athenians

Book:The Federalist

Source: The Federalist

“The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.”

Doe Important Character Government Asks Nations Easy Community Common Subjects Building Needed Citizens Comfort Responsible Neighbor Reform Spectators Common Good Building Community

Author:George W. Bush

“The shimmering, lucid tones and silver melancholy of I'll Be Right There give readers a South Korea peopled with citizens fighting for honor and intellectual freedom, and longing for love and solace. Kyung-Sook Shin's characters have unforgettable voices-it's no wonder she has so many fans.”

Giving Character Fighting Voice Wonder Fans Reader Citizens Honor Intellectual Longing South Tone Silver Melancholy Korea Solace Unforgettable South Korea Intellectual Freedom

Author:Susan Straight

“The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood.”

Littles Character Interesting Citizens Manhood Nobility Resolute Interesting Characters

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces

“The great end of all religionis to purify our hearts--and conquer our passions--and in a word, to make us wiser and better men--better neighbours--better citizens--and better servants of GOD.”

Men Heart Ends Character Religion Passion Duty Citizens Conquer Servant Wiser Neighbour Servant Of God Better Man

Author:Laurence Sterne

“The man of frank and strong prejudices, far from being a political and social menace and an obstacle in the path of progress, is often a benign character and helpful citizen. The chance is far greater, furthermore, that he will be more creative than the man who can never come to more than a few gingerly held conclusions, or who thinks that all ideas should be received with equal hospitality. There is such a thing as being so broad you are flat.”

“But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.”

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“A nation of character is filled with citizens who gradually build lives based on the living awareness that their deeds are judged by eyes of unchanging truth, by a will that is the real measure of what is right, and therefore of what is good.”

Real Character Eye Nations Awareness Citizens Filled Deeds Judged Unchanging

Author:Alan Keyes

“Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.”

Children Long Enough Character Together Passion Citizens Responsible Productive Mature Raising Children

Author:Frank Pittman

“A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in ways not available to the general population, if you want to put it that way. They're interesting and unpredictable. Characters always have to break some sort of bound or other to be interesting. It also helps if they're paradoxical.”

Ifs Way Want Kind Character Helping Able Realizing Interesting Break Citizens Ordinary Bounds Population Definitions Available Criminals Unpredictable Paradoxical Ordinary Citizens

Author:William Monahan

“Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.”

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Book:The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.”

Art Character Citizens Limits Aids Rejects Instruction Art And Science Defective

Author:Noah Webster

“Like all of you I'm angry. I'm angry at what's happening to our nation. Citizens, it's time to take our country back. Bombastic insults wont take it back. Political rhetoric that promises a lot and delivers little, won't take it back. All of our problems can be solved. All of our wounds can be healed by a tested leader who is willing to fight for the character of our nation.”

Littles Country Character Problem Political Fighting Nations Leader Willing Citizens Promise Happenings Angry Wounds Our Country Insult Rhetoric Tested Healed Bombastic Political Rhetoric

Author:Carly Fiorina

“We must remember that ours was intended to be a citizen government, and we must work together to restore our country and the character of our nation.”

Country Character Government Together Remember Nations Citizens Our Country Working Together

Author:Carly Fiorina

“An initial impulse of mine was to portray the way in which a city is impacted by war. But this is vague, no? After all, how do you actually have an entire city - or country, for that matter - be a character a reader can follow? One way is by making it smaller and personalizing it, by writing specifically about the citizens and the way they contend with the reality, even minutiae, especially minutiae, of their lives.”

Way Writing War Country Matter Character Reality Cities Mines Reader Citizens One Way Impulse Vague Initials Minutiae

Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh

“The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school. Five years later, a quarter of us were in SDS, in Students for Democratic Society. Not because we were particularly chosen or because we were as I say, we were lucky but we were mainly luckily to grow up at a time where this black freedom movement was really defining the moral character of what it meant to be a citizen and a person.”

“No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.”

Giving Matter Character Political House Names Decision Judging Citizens No Matter What Candidates Voting

Author:Roger Mudd

“No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.”

“It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.”

Giving Character Political Politics Church Courage Virtue Honesty Duty Citizens Politician Integrity Capacity Affair Conviction Obligation Validity Best Political

Author:Albert Einstein

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