Terry Pratchett Quotes

I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

The work of being a citizen is hard and annoying, but it can pay off.

Citizenship has been out of fashion for some decades in our country, but now it is back in fashion. Weekends are for fighting tyranny. And that's why it's going to be really fun to see Democracy Now!

It never hurts to be involved in any political or activist organization. I can never see how participation would be a bad thing. The key is being true to what you participate with and who.

When those who have the opportunity to speak to those politicians they must do so and if one doesn't have that opportunity to speak directly, they can still speak indirectly and it can be heard.

Families are incubators for citizen activists.

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you’re a terrorist.

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.

My goal as a citizen is to do what I can to help the causes that I personally believe in.

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.

I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.

I was born into public service.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

It is the duty of American Muslims to participate constructively in the political process, if only to protect their rights, and give support to views and causes they favor.

Being a citizen in a democracy involves more than just voting. It means being involved for the common whole.

If a people bent on violence and terrorism have free elections, they will elect leaders bent on violence and terrorism.

Political involvement is more than a game.

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.

To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.