Quotes About Citizenship

The whole point of bureaucracy is to reduce the possibilities of your life to the greatest possible degree when it doesn't simply succeed in destroying them; from the bureaucratic point of view, a good citizen is a dead citizen.

America is not, nor has it ever been, the world's full-service homeless shelter.

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.

was still hard for a Korean to become a Japanese citizen, and there were many who considered such a thing shameful—for a Korean to try to become a citizen of its former oppressor.

Lately, Noa was warning him that since the Koreans in Japan were no longer citizens, if you got in trouble, you could be deported. Noa had told him that no matter what,

For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.

Today, we ask not what we can do for our country but what our country, employer, fast-food purveyor, or favorite airline can do for us.

los partidos políticos sirven (o deberían servir) de intermediarios entre la gente y su gobierno. Su función es conectar los deseos y necesidades de los votantes con las actividades y decisiones del gobierno. A

At the heart of politics lies an existential urge for physical security, and the people proved willing and even eager to relinquish whatever unsupervised freedom and entitlements they enjoyed in the state of divine anarchy, and to surrender to a political sovereign who will freely tax and conscript them so long as he can also safeguard them from their pitiless enemies.

If "we are the government," then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and untyrannical but also "voluntary" on the part of the individual concerned.

A true citizen must be a realist both at heart and mind.

Liberals have no idea what they are fighting for, none of them are true patriots of their country.

My name means absolutely nothing, therefore everything; simply because it's already representing me as a human being and a citizen of the universe.

The real definition of politics is to build the nation and not a single political party.

The state can easily destroy religion, but religion cannot do the same with the state. Therefore, defend and secure the freedom of your state before you want to become a martyr of your religion.

There is no doubt that a great leader will also end up producing good citizens who respect the laws of the state. The same goes for parents and their children.

To be the citizen of the universe is always to learn new things. Exploration of different languages and environments. Hence, meet new people and make new friends in the process.

We are all seeking for the truest form of democracy; as that will lead us to live in freedom.

Kingdom citizenship is a spiritual reality, but it is also a mentality. As believers, we already have the Spirit of God, but we need to learn the mind and the heart of God.

Unlike those in Philippi (perhaps including some of the Christians) whose citizenship is in Rome, the true citizenship of Jesus' followers is in heaven. This does not mean that Paul is here talking about their 'going to heaven' one day, any more than the Roman citizens in Philippi would expect to go to live in Rome one day (as people sometimes mistakenly suppose). Rather, they are part of the extended empire of 'heaven'.

I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed.

The main thrust of Burr's argument was that citizenship came from consent. Drawing on his favorite writer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Burr defended the basic premise of the social contract: citizens were not born, but made, through their participation in civil society. Gallatin

Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas.

Having human DNA should not immediately grant an individual inalienable rights. Rights, it was decided, and equivalent responsibilities, should be given to 'citizens', and only those above a certain level of intelligence could become citizens. Protests did result when some humans failed to qualify, whilst all AIs and some particularly bright pigs did