Global Citizens Quotes

#1. What I'd love to do is work with kids in the U.S. to raise their awareness and encourage them to be global citizens. We're all connected these days; we can listen to the same music as kids all around the world and share our ideas.

Jason Mraz

#2. During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

Maya Angelou

#3. The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

Bell Hooks

#4. My greatest hope is that we will see a day when Israel will stand tall as a symbol of belonging across the Jewish world, and when global citizens will look to Jerusalem as the vibrant, modern, inclusive capital of Israel.

Lynn Schusterman

#5. IN GENERAL CANFAB ,TERRORISM IS BREWED AND COUNSELED BY WORLD MATURED MASTER BRAINS. RESULTING ENTIRE GLOBAL CITIZENS BROOKING THE CREAM OF CROP. OBVIOUSLY, POWER FIRE ON LINE LIVE HAS TO BE ENGULFED RIGHT NOW TO CATECHIZE IRON PRESS ON EX-CON WRONG DOER TOUR DE FORCE STUNT FEATS.

Various

#6. We have to be the best global citizens we can be.

Thomas Friedman

#7. Annual U.S. spending on cosmetics: $8 billion Basic education for all global children: $6 billion Annual U.S. and European spending on perfume: $12 billion Clean water for all global citizens $9 billion

Jen Hatmaker

#8. Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

Francis Quarles

#9. Submissives are not greedy, she reminded herself, even if they secretly want to be.

Red Phoenix

#10. It's hard to have little children and a job and career at the same time. There is no time left for you as a woman.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#11. The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a vested interest in the status quo will probably continue to be able to stifle any meaningful change until enough citizens.. are willing to speak out.

Al Gore

#12. She and I were alone in this house, the fireflies more active than our souls.

Alessandra Torre

#13. Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.

Vandana Shiva

#14. If the authorities under various false pretenses, continue curtailing the rights of citizens, so that they merely become serfs to a handful of multinational companies, a global rebellion of ordinary people against super capitalism is certainly not inconceivable.

A.J. Beirens

#15. We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#16. The theory of man-made global warming and climate change based on human greenhouse gas emissions is the greatest international scientific fraud ever perpetrated on the world's citizens!

John Casey

#17. The best Shadowhunter of your generation,

Cassandra Clare

#18. I had never thought of Marley as any kind of model, but sitting there sipping my beer, I was aware that maybe he held the secret for a good life. Never slow down, never look back, live each day w/ adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity and playfulness.

John Grogan

#19. We don't manage time, we manage activities within time

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#20. the basic responsibility of government is to maximize the welfare of its citizens, not to pursue some abstract concept of the global good'.76

Edward Luce

#21. Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous.

David Suzuki

#22. We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

Yuan T. Lee

#23. I thought of myself as a global citizen.

Eduardo Saverin

#24. We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Earl Nightingale

#25. You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.

Ban Ki-moon

#26. Sometimes you plodded through life with nothing changing from one month to the next no matter how much you yearned for a revolution to erupt beneath your feet. And sometimes your whole world imploded and rebuilt itself in a matter of seconds.

Laura Kaye

#27. Galer Street School is a place where compassion, academics, and global connectitude join together to create civic-minded citizens of a sustainable and diverse planet. Student:

Maria Semple

#28. When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.

Tony Abbott

#29. Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.

Victor Ponta

#30. I think that if it is.. has to do with global warming, or if it has to do with raising the minimum wage, or if it has to do with lowering prescription drugs for vulnerable citizens.. all of those things are people issues, not Democratic issues or Republican issues.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#31. For all things turn to barenness
In the dim glass the demons hold
The glass of outer weariness
Made when God slept in times of old

Loreena McKennitt

#32. A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

J. Michael Straczynski

#33. As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

Paul Wellstone

#34. In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.

Tania Bruguera

#35. Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason.

Bill Maher

#36. I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#37. Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

John Conyers

#38. The message from national security experts and citizens around the world is clear: The only way to eliminate the global nuclear danger is to eliminate all nuclear weapons.

Michael Douglas

#39. I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.

Kofi Annan

#40. Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy.

John W. Snow