Narendra Modi Quotes

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work.

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

Be an active participant in your community and country. Every small gesture makes up the big gestures. Resist, rinse, repeat.

I think it's very important for everyone in America to realize right now the state of our country, not just on this issue but on a lot of issues, that it is time to get active again. People have just sat back and just sort of said, oh, let somebody else do it for a long time, and we're seeing what's happening to the country, even freedom of speech. It's not going well. So I think this is a real opportunity for people to see, yes, if you do get out and you do get active, there are other people there. You just have to seek them out.

We have, in the same way, relegated our own responsibility in what happens to our country to the specialists, who are supposed to take care of it, and the individual citizen does not feel that he can judge, and even that he should judge, and take any responsibility. I think there are quite a number of recent developments which show that.

Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it.

I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.

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.

The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.

I think there are many ways to serve your country.

I encourage everyone out there to get involved.

We too often prefer the individual thrill to collective responsibility.

Clergymen do well to preach the neglected doctrine that the first duty of a citizen is to consider what he can do for the state and not what the state will do for him.

The young people ... must recognize that they will get from their country tomorrow what they give her today.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

Our definition of patriotism is often too narrow. Shall the lover of his country measure his loyalty only by his service as a soldier? No! Patriotism calls for the faithful and conscientious performance of all of the duties of citizenship, in small matters as well as great, at home as well as upon the tented field

We are not apathetic in this country.

A community belongs to those who take ownership of it.

As I get older and more tuned in to a community or an area, I see myself getting more involved. Not that I see myself running for office, but more involved in local issues.

I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.