Quotes About Citizens

The master nodded. "To hear the unheard," he said, "is a necessary discipline to be a good ruler. For only when a ruler has learned to listen closely to the people's hearts, hearing their feelings uncommunicated, pains unexpressed, and complaints not spoken of, can he hope to inspire confidence in the people, understand when something is wrong, and meet the true needs of his citizens.

regimes of the twentieth century depended not just on repression and control of the populace but on the active construction of national myth. Here the state leaders adopt the role of wise, courageous patriarchs who bravely resist decadent and predatory foreign influence, while the self-sacrifice expected of citizens is celebrated with heroic images and narratives. The state becomes the source of moral virtue.

Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves. These are the just and reasonable demands of a righteous public. But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across

Once more, we will have a government of, by and for the people.

We are not citizens of earth who are going to heaven; we are citizens of heaven who are traveling through earth.

Socialism invariably leads to economic disaster and often to the government slaughter of its citizens. Even under less severe forms of socialism, regimes live off their nation's wealth that was accumulated before socialist control, until they inevitably squander it.7

Los gobiernos no pueden dar nada que no les hayan arrancado antes a sus ciudadanos.

the two of us are giving ourselves something to do, citizens henceforth of a world in which desire no longer exists.

If you read a newspaper on any given day, you will see that most of the gains we are making as a society are still being done by activist citizens' organizations.

If novelists know anything it's that individual citizens are internally plural: they have within them the full range of behavioral possibilities. They are like complex musical scores from which certain melodies can be teased out and others ignored or suppressed, depending, at least in part, on who is doing the conducting.

Like millions of British people, we paid our taxes in the hope that they would be used to establish shared institutions from which all might benefit equally.

We simply believe that everyone who lives in our state needs to abide by our laws.

Of course in a democracy the government and the citizens have to abide by court rulings, even if we don't like them or don't agree with them.

There is no power above people power.

The only way we are held accountable is if people know what government is doing.

Acts and laws are for people. People are not for Acts and laws. Acts and laws should be simple.

Government cannot be all things to all people.

The American government will be whatever we all make of it.

We have to protect the rights of the American people.

For the good of the American people, we must place our own interests first.

I'm very confident in the voice and the power of the American people.

The American people are tired of the D.C. way.

People see citizens who are anti-war anti-American or anti-patriotic and that's so wrong.

We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore.