Best 124 quotes in «citizenship quotes» category

[T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity and determination to weigh arguments and evidence rationally.

The work of an intellectual is not to form the political will of others; it is, through the analyses he does in his own domains, to bring assumptions and things taken for granted again into question, to shake habits, ways of acting and thinking, to dispel the familiarity of the accepted, to take the measure of rules and institutions and, starting from that re-problemitisation (where he plays his specific role as intellectual) to take part in the formation of a political will (where he has his role to play as citizen).

This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework that would guarantee that the men who fought felt that they themselves in a formal and contractual sense had ratified the conditions of their own battle service. The ancient Western world would soon come to define itself by culture rather than by race, skin color, or language. That idea alone would eventually bring enormous advantages to its armies on the battlefield. (p. 122)

Un citoyen ignoré par l'administration est, d'une certaine façon, voué à la non-existence. Il ne faut toutefois pas ignorer qu'une personne privée de ses droits n'a nul devoir à accomplir.

Ukiipenda sana nchi yako ni rahisi sana kuichukia serikali yake!

When a civil servant or politician acts out of self-interest, it's called corruption, but when a citizen does it, it's called public interest.

Until there is equal and fair portion of opportunities apportioned for every citizen, the power structure may need to be restructured.

We are forever lured by the sirens of the dogmatic mind, with its haughty complacency, which determines that one´s relationship to others is only meaningful when one tries to convince them of one´s single truth. In such a spiritual and intellectual climate, holding a dialogue consists of speaking, but never of listening - the other is the privileged scope of my proselytism. My truth thus becomes a blind and blinding passion - it imprisons me, even as it was supposed to liberate me; it has become a source of alienation.

We are not born to accommodate tyranny over our hearts, minds, bodies, or souls. We are here to confirm an abundance of love-inspired possibilities greater than such restrictions.

We'd do well to remember that at the end of the day, the law doesn't defend us; we defend the law. And when it becomes contrary to our morals, we have both the right and the responsibility to rebalance it toward just ends.

When a nation's people willingly or unwillingly make a mistake and give authority of their lives in the hands of a leader who represents neither hope nor humanity, instead keeps thriving on and indeed advocating for, the primitive elements of human character, it becomes the utmost civilized responsibility of those very people to either make a true leader out of him if possible, or dethrone him for good.

Your patriotism is not measured by what your country can do for you. It's all about what you can do for your country for your own benefit and for the benefit of unborn generations!

When justice is prioritized by any leader at any level then to give justice to the citizenry will always be at the back of the mind of such a leader.

While the Citizen can entertain aspirations for the society as a whole and take pride in its achievements, the Taxpayer, as presently imagined, simply does not want to pay taxes. The societal consequences of this aversion--failing infrastructure, for example--are to be preferred to any inroad on his or her momentary fiefdom.

Without a home there can be no good citizen. With a home there can be no bad one.

Why should citizenship depend on one exclusive form of a relationship? What about love between friends, community, love of work?

Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay?

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.

Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

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.

Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.

Castilian Spanish-speaking Spain is big, but is bigger in addition with Catalonian-speaking Spain, Galician-speaking Spain and Basque-speaking Spain. Democratic Spain, Constitutional Spain, can not be separated from diversity and the respect to the citizenship.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Citizenship is the right to have rights.

Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote.***

Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.

Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

[Donald] Trump is right when he says Ted Cruz citizenship has never been litigated!

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

Having my Canadian citizenship is a blessing at this time, and there's a part of me that feels very much one foot in and one foot out, and I know I can go back to Canada whenever. There are a lot of things that Canada does really well are the same things that are very messed up in the U.S., but I know that's a pretty self-centered stance. I don't know. It can be pretty discouraging, particularly in a city like New York. It's hard to see so many of the issues happening in the country in an up close way, but at the same time, there's a sense of positive solidarity here.

For everybody has a natural right not only to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth.

from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.

I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling.

I’d rather see the United States as a beacon of Good Work and Good Citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.

I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives are equally desperate. But on arrival, the Haitians are incarcerated, and some are immediately repatriated, whereas Cubans get to stay and are eligible for citizenship.

Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.

I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport.

I oppose amnesty, I oppose citizenship, I oppose legalization for illegal aliens. I always have and I always will.