Top 21 Quotes About Active Citizen
#1. What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.
Camille Desmoulins
#2. Lana says J.P. makes Matt Damon from the Bourne movies look like Oliver from Hannah Montana
Meg Cabot
#3. I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.
Lupe Fiasco
#4. I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or work of history or volume of poetry is an experience one should savor, take time over.
Michael Dirda
#5. Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
Berthold Auerbach
#6. Just your being here justifies that what I feel for you is strong enough to endure anything.
Faith Sullivan
#7. My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.
Josh Earnest
#8. There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.
Frank Murphy
#9. 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
#10. It was only one splendid breath they had, in spite of their brave mockery at the winter outside the glass; and it was a losing game in the end, it seemed, this revolt against the homilies by which the world is run.
Willa Cather
#11. Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say "I'll never be good". You can become better! and one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#12. My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - don't depend on other people, do it yourself.
Kyrsten Sinema
#13. The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power.
Ludwig Von Mises
#14. The mere fact that my comments have caused such strong protests, although I'm not a European, and also the fact that I have been compared with certain persons in German history indicates how charged with conflict the atmosphere for research is in your country. Here in Iran you needn't worry.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#15. 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
#16. Whatever the limits and travails we face, we want to retain the autonomy - the freedom - to be the authors of our lives.
Atul Gawande
#18. My eyes are filling fast with tears and I blink and blink but the world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.
Tahereh Mafi
#19. For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest. If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen.
Rory Stewart
#20. China is beginning to act more like a world citizen. We need China to be more active on the world stage. For example, we should want China to be a bigger participant and a bigger shareholder in the IMF. We should want it to be an even more active participant in the G8 and G20.
Roger Altman
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