“Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.” KnowsFirstsSeemsWould BeAmericaNationsPerfectLeaderClassImagineStudentsCollegeCitizensCreatingNotionAbsurdSupposed To BeSatDiverseCompositionFilling Author:Eric Liu
“If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.” IfsThinkingWould BeDecisionUnitedDemocracyCitizensNotionSupposed To BeCitizens United Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty does not consist in the notion that a man may do whatever he pleases; liberty is the right to do whatsoever the laws allow. ... The equality of the citizens consists in that they should all be subject to the same laws.” MenShouldMayDoeLawPoliticalLibertySubjectsOughtCitizensPleaseSafetyNotionCivil RightsSecureFramed Author:Catherine the Great
“The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.” IdeasEarthChristianUniverseHeavenPerfectDivinePlanetsCitizensFundamentalsNotionForgottenPeculiarRejectedNastySuccessorsTainted Book:Cosmos Source: Cosmos
“To say or imply that the foundation exists only on the sufferance of government is to reason from the untenable notion that the citizen and all his institutions are creatures of the state, not the other way around.” WayStatesReasonGovernmentCitizensCreaturesInstitutionsFoundationNotion Author:Richard Cornuelle
“The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies.” MadeEndsDoneActionIndividualGenerationsCitizensNotionAvailableFamiliarAgencyAttainment Book:Spencer: Political Writings Source: Spencer: Political Writings
“I have privileges even in comparison to a Palestinian Israeli because Palestinian Israelis who live permanently in Ramallah risk their status, not as citizens but as residents. They might lose their social rights if they move to Ramallah. But I won't, so I live with privileges. That notion is very difficult for me as a child who was raised in a left-wing family, a family of people who suffered discrimination as Jews abroad. The notion that I am so privileged is disgusting. But this is what it means to live in a white society. You are white, so you are privileged.” PeopleIfsMeanChildrenMightMovingLeftSocialDifficultLosesWhiteRightsRiskCitizensWingsRaisedNotionPrivilegeJewDiscriminationComparisonDisgustingPalestinianPrivilegedIsraeliLeft WingResidents Author:Amira Hass
“I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems.” WorldBelieveWellsProblemAmericaI BelieveCitizensSolutionsNotionRejectsDecline Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.” BelieveStatesPresidentChurchReligiousDemocracyCitizensNotionEqualitySeparationDogmaEntitledAvoidedChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateReligious Dogma Author:Rosie O'Donnell
“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.” CountryHatePoliticsCrimeCitizensDespairNotionDrivenLikesRadicalPatriotismDisturbedIdioticGood Citizen Author:H. L. Mencken