931 Quotes About Citizens

I thought of myself as a global citizen.

I was born in Brazil, I was an American citizen for about 10 years. I thought of myself as a global citizen.

The decision was strictly based on my interest of living and working in Singapore. I am obligated and I will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the American government. I already paid and I will keep paying whatever taxes I owe based on my time as a U.S. citizen.

Unfortunately, we don't have such intelligent citizens everywhere as we do in Bavaria.

And what terrifies me is that we're entering a phase where if you start to speak about this as something that can be understood historically - without any sympathy - you are going to be thought of as unpatriotic, and you are going to be forbidden. It's very dangerous. It is precisely incumbent on every citizen to quite understand the world we're living in and the history we are a part of and we are forming as a superpower.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.

Nothing enrages citizens more than the suspicion of a creeping loss of sovereignty,

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.