147 Quotes About Citizenship

Some readers may wonder what is exactly meant when we are treated and evaluated as customers not as citizens. In short, it means that as customers, we are evaluated based on our income and spending power not based on our value as humans. In fact, referring to people as ‘customers’ or ‘consumers’ in most settings becomes precisely a way to deny those who cannot afford to pay for this or that service any basic human or citizenship rights.

Corruption begins at home and can end at home.

Encouraging Robert E. Lee to take a job as college president, "You might be presenting to the world in such a position an example of quiet usefulness and gentle patriotism.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it

somos um país de cidadãos não praticantes.

Yes, and this is how you are a citizen: Come on. Let it go. Move on.

This is your first lesson.” He went from Arkûl to Arkûl, taking spears, belt knives and shortswords from their corpses. When he was finished, he tossed the weapons into the crowd.“A man without a weapon is a subject,” he said to them as they snatched up the new tools. “A man with a weapon is a citizen!

We are not born to accommodate tyranny over our hearts, minds, bodies, or souls. We are here to confirm an abundance of love-inspired possibilities greater than such restrictions.

Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.