Quotes About Citizenship

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

People who are not willing to respect not only the given law, but our democratic way of life, should not live in Europe.

It's kind of a sad thing when a normal love of country makes you a super patriot. I do think we have a pretty wonderful country, and I thank God that He chose me to live here.

Consider a resident of Berlin, born in 1900 and living to the ripe age of one hundred. She spent her childhood in the Hohenzollern Empire of William II; her adult years in the Weimar Republic, the Nazi Third Reich and Communist East Germany; and she died a citizen of a democratic and reunified Germany. She had managed to be a part of five very different sociopolitical systems, though her DNA remained exactly the same.

in 1987, Thatcher said, "There is no such thing as society. There is [a] living tapestry of men and women…and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves."1

it would perhaps be helpful to view immigration as a deal with three basic conditions or terms: TERM 1: The host country allows the immigrants in. TERM 2: In return, the immigrants must embrace at least the core norms and values of the host country, even if that means giving up some of their traditional norms and values. TERM 3: If the immigrants assimilate to a sufficient degree, over time they become equal and full members of the host country. "They" become "us.

No hay contradicción entre esta globalización y el patriotismo. Porque el patriotismo no tiene que ver con odiar a los extranjeros. El patriotismo tiene que ver con cuidar bien a nuestros compatriotas. Y en el siglo XXI, con el fin de cuidar bien a nuestros compatriotas, hemos de cooperar con extranjeros. De modo que los buenos nacionalistas tienen que ser ahora globalistas.

Sin embargo, en las últimas décadas, la situación se ha invertido, y la visión de Bentham se ha tomado mucho más en serio. Cada vez más gente cree que los inmensos sistemas establecidos hace más de un siglo para fortalecer la nación deberían en verdad estar al servicio de la felicidad y el bienestar de los ciudadanos. No estamos aquí para servir al Estado: él está aquí para servirnos.

Hitler wasn't a senior officer – in four years of war, he rose no higher than the rank of corporal. He had no formal education, no professional skills and no political background. He wasn't a successful businessman or a union activist, he didn't have friends or relatives in high places, nor any money to speak of. At first, he didn't even have German citizenship. He was a penniless immigrant.

Consider a resident of Berlin, born in 1900 and living to the ripe age of one hundred. She spent her childhood in the Hohenzollern Empire of Wilhelm II; her adult years in the Weimar Republic, the Nazi Third Reich and Communist East Germany; and she died a citizen of a democratic and reunified Germany. She had managed to be a part of five very different sociopolitical systems, though her DNA remained exactly the same.

More and more people believe that all of humankind is the legitimate source of political authority, rather than the members of a particular nationality, and that safeguarding human rights and protecting the interests of the entire human species should be the guiding light of politics.

A passion for the commons revives the stakes of politics.

Democracy is good for you when you are not in power and worst when you are in power and that's why it is best form of government.

Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations.

I'll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a vile third-rate actor! Read the evidence.

Chinese were initially excluded from the draft; politicians on the west coast convinced the federal government that the risk of allowing the Chinese to go to war for the country was that they might then demand the right to vote.

Most Whites would entertain the notion that being a person of color in this society subjects them to second-class citizenship. Yet it is intriguing that most White Americans would actively deny that they are advantaged automatically by this state of affairs.