Best citizens & dignity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live in a palace without bodyguards, extravagant attire, chandeliers, statues, and other luxuries. He taught me that it is possible to live instead pretty much in the manner of a private citizen without losing any of the dignity and authority a ruler must possess to discharge his imperial duties effectively.”

Father Taught Duty Citizens Authority Losing Dignity Luxury Arrogance Rulers Statues Palaces Extravagant Discharge Bodyguard Attire Chandeliers

Book:The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

“When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases it. By recognizing that he is a part of a larger body which is banded together for a common purpose, he becomes more than an individual, he rises to a new dignity of citizenship. Instead of finding himself restricted and confined by rendering obedience to public law, he finds himself protected and defended and in the exercise of increased and increasing rights.”

“In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally, whose function is merely to sign off on measures proposed by an executive administration. This is why the problem with democratic rituals is homologous to the great problem of constitutional monarchy: how to protect the dignity of the king? How to maintain the appearance that the king effectively makes decisions, when we all know this not to be true?”

Source: First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

“After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.”

Way Nations Citizens Deserve Dignity Lifetime Retiring Senior Contributing Senior Citizen Raising A Family

Author:Charlie Gonzalez

“All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other distinction than that of their virtues and talents.”

Virtue Talent Citizens Office Capacity Dignity Including Equality Employment Distinction Womens Rights

Author:Olympe de Gouges

“A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.”

Years Security Revolution Citizens Deserve Dignity Medical Providing Elders

Author:John F. Kennedy

“It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.”

“My hope is that the Pope Francis visit to Cuba will remind all the Cuban citizens that they possess dignity and fundamental rights that come from God and that the Castro regime has no claim on changing what is 100% God-given.”

Given Rights Citizens Dignity Claims Fundamentals Regimes Pope Cuba Cuban Castro Fundamental Rights

Author:Marco Rubio

“The American citizen lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its original. We hardly dare face our bewilderment, because our ambiguous experience is so pleasantly irridescent, and the solace of belief in contrived reality is so thoroughly real. We have become eager accessories to the great hoaxes of the age. These are the hoaxes we play on ourselves.”

World Real Play Reality Age Faces Belief Fantasy Citizens Dignity Originals Dare Solace Ambiguous Accessories American Citizens Bewilderment Hoaxes

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“It bodes very ill for government when men are exalted to places of high trust through their own solicitations. He only fills a place with dignity who is invited to it by his fellow citizens from the experience they have had of his adequate abilities.”

Men Government Ability Citizens Dignity Fellows Ill Invited Adequate Exalted Solicitation

Book:The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802

Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802

“We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van Buren, or Gerrit Smith could claim the right of the elective franchise. But to have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to.”

Source: The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches

“And it's a lie that has consequences, because the great American dream is to have a good job, and in recent years, America has failed to deliver that dream more than it has at any time in recent memory. A good job is an individual's primary identity, their very self-worth, their dignity - it establishes the relationship they have with their friends, community and country. When we fail to deliver a good job that fits a citizen's talents, training and experience, we are failing the great American dream.”

“I firmly believe that the reputation of any country which is capable of defending the life and dignity of its citizens, and can conduct independent foreign policy will only improve in mid- and long-term perspective.”

Believe Long Country Term Policy Perspective Citizens Capable Dignity Independent Reputation Long Term Foreign Policy

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I believe that a country, Russia in this case, which can defend the honour and dignity of its citizens, protect their lives, and fulfill its international legal commitments under the peacekeeping mandate, will not find itself in isolation, no matter what our partners in Europe or the United States may think, expressing their bloc mentality.”

“I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.”

Earth Mother Choices Religious Leader Support Praying Citizens Politician Dignity And Love Ill I Pray Mother Earth Religious Leaders Lawmakers Departing Terminally Ill Dignity And Love

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Politics is mainly about interests. As Muslim citizens, we understand these interests but we should put principles and dignity beyond everything.”

Should Interest Principles Citizens Dignity

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.”

Persons Strong Community Justice Effort Economy Building Citizens Honor Dignity Solidarity Promoting Mobility Upward Mobility Free Economy Strong Community

Author:Paul Ryan

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