Quotes About Citizens

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens.

By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens . . . The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose

By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

The worst stressors—exposure to violence, trauma, abuse, and mental illness—are shaped by a surprising factor: the level of income inequality in a region. For example, countries with the biggest gap between their richest citizens and their poorest have the worst health and the most violence.

Our "pathway" is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning…. We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

It has been estimated that only one in four of the empire's citizens lived above subsistence level,13 and a rural population had become increasingly urbanised.

Dion now encouraged Plato to cleanse Syracuse of her luxuries and vices "and put on her the garment of freedom," along with laws to make the citizens orderly and virtuous. Plato may even have contemplated abolishing private property as he had in the Republic, or at least imposing limits on wealth. Certainly he hoped to train the young Dionysius to become the kind of conscientious ruler a true Platonic state would need to maintain order: in short, a living Philosopher Ruler.

Aristotle's free society is one in which the citizens participate in their government rather than submit to it. All will be rulers in one way or another, at one time or another. "This means some rule, and others are ruled, in turn, as if they had become, for the time being, different persons.

Spartan citizens were not allowed to use money, practice a trade, make a statue, or write a poem.

a mass of ignorant, culturally degraded citizens easily becomes an immense drag on the system. They become easy prey to demagogues and applaud every attempt to undermine the foundations of that "natural liberty" which they have enjoyed in the first place.

Y es que diversión y educación hacen a los ciudadanos laboriosos y responsables. Ayudan a eso los saraos públicos, cafés y casas de conversación, juegos de pelota, teatros... —Y

Sus compatriotas son refractarios a demasiadas cosas. Ni el fascismo ni el comunismo calan de verdad en ellos; he visto allí más oportunistas que gente con ideas firmes... Sólo el anarquismo encaja con su carácter, y eso los hace imprevisibles y peligrosos.

un Estado social y democrático de derecho, una democracia plena y avanzada.

We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.

Todo político es un empleado de la sociedad pagado de dinero del contribuyente. Tener éxito es su obligación y no objeto de exaltación. El político que no se considera siervo de la sociedad, sino que se sirve de ella, no es digno del cargo que ocupa

I think it's time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.

Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless -- and helpless -- mass to be manipulated at will. It is as though people were incidental to a nation rather than its very life-blood.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

The exercise of my reason itself was forbidden. But the questions never stopped coming, eventually leading to this one: "Why would a benevolent God set up the world like this, marking one half of the population to be second-class citizens? Or was it just men who did this?