Quotes for All
There’s the part that I just want what I want, and I don’t want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that’s the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps … Read more
To be a good citizen, it’s important to be able to put yourself in other people’s shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible. Eli Pariser
I think it’s easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn’t make a good citizen. Eli Pariser
Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the germs of the church. There is all that in the child makes the future man; all that in the man makes the good citizen. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of misadventures and crimes and oppressions visited upon the innocent, the poor, the defenseless, the minorities, and so on. This created a new narrative in America. Let’s call it, America the inexcusable. And this … Read more
Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits…. Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens. Daniel Webster
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens. Daniel Webster
A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter. Cullen Hightower
Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits. Cordell Hull
Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn’t have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties. Clarence Day