Soni Razdan Quotes

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

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

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

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

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.

When a system goes astray, it is the right and obligation of citizens to oppose it and change it-for themselves and for generations to come

I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don't like. I think that's part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

I feel, if I criticize my country, it's not because I don't like my country. I love my country. That is my patriotism. I want to make it a better place for my children, for everyone. And if we don't look at what's in front of us, and we allow things to get out of hand because of other vested interests, then as citizens are not doing a good job.

When approached right, citizens never fail to shoulder their responsibilities.

The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, that those which come from below are irregularly gained and uncertain.

I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.

If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

I believe that all students, when asked to be accountable for their actions and to be socially aware citizens, will become agents for change!

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.