“Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is the political mode best suited to their disposition and their capacities. Under its regime, the citizen, like the soldier, is relieved of the burden of initiative and is divested of all responsibility, save for doing as he is told.” MightPoliticalEasyResponsibilityMankindCitizensCapacityResponseSoldierBurdenArguingIndifferenceRegimesInitiativeConsideringDispositionConditioningCollectivismRelievedGullibility Author:Albert J. Nock
“As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and misguided in your head. It is harder when the product of your mind can be criticized by others. Of course, it is a rare human who admits that he has been persuaded that he is wrong. But it is even rarer for a human to ignore when he has been proven wrong. The writing of ideas, arguments, and criticism improves democracy.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingMindHumansHas BeensIdeasCoursesEasyDemocracyIssuesProductsCitizensArgumentCriticismHarderProvenMisguidedProven Wrong Book:Free Culture Source: Free Culture
“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.” DoeImportantCharacterGovernmentAsksNationsEasyCommunityCommonSubjectsBuildingNeededCitizensComfortResponsibleNeighborReformSpectatorsCommon GoodBuilding Community Author:George W. Bush
“Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.” HumansEasyParentHuman BeingsSonCitizensHusbandGood CitizenGood ParentGood HusbandGood Human Being Author:Siddharth Katragadda
“The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.” MenMadeEndsStatesDonePoliticalForceEasyUnitedUnited StatesHe ManMastersCitizensActivityCreaturesTasksRemainsPropertyConservativeMade ItCorporationsServantTrue FriendBeing ThereCommonwealthEasy Tasks Book:Letters and Speeches Source: Letters and Speeches
“I'm not opposed to letting people work and labor in our country, but we shouldn't provide an easy route to citizenship. We're the only country I know of where a person can come in illegally and that baby becomes a citizen and I think that should stop also.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldPersonsCountryEasyBabyCitizensLaborOur CountryCitizenshipRoutesEasy Route Author:Rand Paul
“The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.” PeopleMenFeelsStillsBookLawFoundEasyCitizensGayLike MeIrelandHomosexualityGay MenVictorianStatutes Author:Colm Toibin
“We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.” PeopleIfsWorldWarEasyForgetAttitudeCitizensNewsAssumingCivil WarCompassionateStarvingBlindersAttitude Towards Life Author:Anne Hathaway
“We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will not be cheap or easy and the costs will have to be borne by each citizen, consumer and taxpayer. How clean is clean enough can only be answered in terms of how much we are willing to pay and how soon we seek success... It is simplistic to seek ecological perfection at the cost of bankrupting the very tax-paying enterprises which must pay for the social advances we seek.” EnoughSocialEasyGoalTermPayMoralEnvironmentWillingCitizensCostTaxesPerfectionCleanEnvironmentalConsumersEnterpriseDedicationPollutionRhetoricTaxpayersEcologicalCleaners Author:Richard M. Nixon
“There's a long history of subsidized philanthropy - particularly in the USA - and again the public has come to expect corporations to play a role in their social welfare. It's become easy for some companies to profit from citizen goodwill and volunteerism.” LongPlaySocialEasyCompanyRolesCitizensProfitCorporationsWelfareUsaPhilanthropyGoodwillVolunteerismSocial Welfare Author:Ravida Din
“For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy.” WorldWellsI CanTwoMatterTodayCultureEasyGrowing UpGrowingTaughtCitizensFortuneGermanyGood FortuneWorld CitizenTwo Cultures Author:Tarkan
“Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.” EasyHalfVirtueIgnoranceProudCitizensAchievementIntellectualTownsArtisticDozenDubious Book:Main Street Source: Main Street
“...It is statistically irrefutable that those American cities with stringent "gun control" (e.g. N.Y.C., D.C., Chicago, L.A.) have higher crime rates. It is also irrefutable that those 31 states which have made conceal carry of handguns easy for law-abiding citizens have correspondingly enjoyed significant drops in their crime rates.” MadeStatesLawEasyCitiesCrimeHigherCitizensGunRateSignificantEnjoyedChicagoGun ControlAbidingHandgunsAmerican CitiesLaw Abiding CitizenCrime Rates Author:Kenneth W. Royce
“In liberal societies we don't typically require citizens to rearrange their activities, their lives, the way they go about their business, to make it easy for the police to do their work.” WayEasyCitizensActivityPolice Author:Edward Snowden