Citizen Smith Quotes

#1. Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity

Charles Hugh Smith

#2. I don't want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, 'I have to support it because there's black folks in there.' I want them to go because it's a good movie.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#3. A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

Adam Smith

#4. Noses run. Feet smell.

Teresa Monachino

#5. The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

Goldwin Smith

#6. Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.

Red Smith

#7. He is certainly not a good citizen who does not wish to promote, by every means in his power, the welfare of the whole society of his fellow citizens." That is Adam Smith talking, the apostle of laissez-faire.

Charles Murray

#8. The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Charles Horton Cooley

#9. Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a material world, and it's very expensive to teach meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#10. We are friendly to our country, and when we speak of the flag of our Union, we love it, and we love the rights the Constitution guarantees to every citizen. What did the Prophet Joseph say? When the Constitution shall be tottering we shall be the people to save it from the hand of the foe.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#11. An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Patti Smith

#12. The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

Adam Smith

#13. You have to set new goals every day.

Julie Krone

#14. I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.

Jimmie Johnson

#15. He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.
[He that would be well needs not go from his own house.]

George Herbert

#16. The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood ... Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own.

Margaret Chase Smith

#17. In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

Patti Smith

#18. As a citizen, hopefully I'm humanist. As an artist, I'm free.

Patti Smith