Active Citizens Quotes

#1. Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.

Jonathan Sacks

#2. What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.

Camille Desmoulins

#3. What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

Howard Zinn

#4. If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

Tony Judt

#5. I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

Clara Hughes

#6. I thought you were dying, said Amalfitano.
"No, I was dreaming," said Castillo.

Roberto Bolano

#7. Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#8. Therefore, the chief task of the rulers is always to secure the active or resigned acceptance of the majority of the citizens.8, 9 Of course, one method of securing support is through the creation of vested economic interests.

Murray N. Rothbard

#9. I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.

Neill Blomkamp

#10. I'm not active in politics. I vote as a citizen, and if somebody cares to know what my opinion is at the time of the election, I might or might not share it publicly.

Colin Powell

#11. Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

Wes Nisker

#12. As I see it, the aims of education are to enable students to understand the world around them and the talents within them so that they can become fulfilled individuals and active, compassionate citizens.

Ken Robinson

#13. Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

Joseph Sobran

#14. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

John Perry Barlow

#15. The promise of the Internet has always been that it was gonna be this unprecedentedly potent instrument of liberation and democratization. It would let you explore things and meet people who you wouldn't otherwise get to know, in completely free and unconstrained ways.

Glenn Greenwald

#16. In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.

Maximus The Confessor

#17. There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.

Joan Claybrook

#18. But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

Gabrielle Union

#19. If the plan doesn't work, change the plan, never the goal." Unknown

Marilyn Greenfield

#20. We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, 'How many divisions do international norms have?'

Rich Lowry

#21. Luke is the father of the heart, Richard is the father of the mind, and Christopher is the father of the body.

Jennifer Crusie

#22. I confess that when I first read that smog is particularly hazardous to children, senior citizens, and physically active people, for a brief moment I thought, I'm in the clear for at least ten years.

Paula Poundstone

#23. Our nation will succeed or fail to the degree that all of us - citizens and businesses alike - are active participanats in building strong, sustainable and enriching communities.

Arnold Hiatt

#24. New possibilities for a more active democracy are beginning to emerge in the information age. Effective citizen action is possible if citizens develop the abilities to gain access to information of all kinds and the skills to put such information to effective use.

Harry Boyte

#25. The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

Edmund Morris

#26. You grow up. You move on. You find someone new. And for God's sake, you don't ask the first woman who lets you fuck her to marry you.

Tiffany Reisz

#27. Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

Isaac D'Israeli

#28. We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning
of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in formulating and implementing the Party's policy.

Nicolae Ceausescu