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"One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
"So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make their way into those positions of power... So what we have to do is knock off this fantasy of being citizens inside a democratic state, I mean, what we are, are the propagandized masses inside a fascist dictatorship."
"Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?"
"We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart."
"Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen you are a slave."
"International law now grants rights to all human beings, not only to citizens."
"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."
"The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism."
"Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world."
"My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen."
"Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens."
"It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination."
"The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals."
"As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things."
"The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher."
"No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself."
"A poet is a good citizen turned inside out."
"The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal."
"Everyone knows that senior citizens are stupid"
"More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say."
