Parvathy Quotes

When things happen socially in our community, as artists, we've got the right to exercise our voices if we choose to, use our powers for good.

As a citizen, hopefully I'm humanist. As an artist, I'm free.

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

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.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

Balancing the common good with the freedom and liberty to exercise that individuality has been and remains a challenge for those committed to democracy while understanding that the polis ensures our participation and therefore our citizenship.

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

The first duty of an American citizen, then is that he shall work in politics.

Individuals do not derive from government their right to contract, but bring that right with them into society.... every man retains the right to acquire property, to dispose of that property according to his own judgment, and to pledge himself for a future act.

It is citizen participation that nourishes the strength of a democracy.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, not just every four years, but all the time.

Individual actions are important because in any democracy, citizens need to feel agency. If you feel powerless, totally powerless, it's psychologically dangerous.

I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling.

As leaders, our job is to engage people so that they will want to participate in this grand experience in self governance.

Consistent conservatives should frame their views in accordance with the fundamental belief that individuals, not governments, have the right to determine the course of their own lives.

People pay attention to artists and celebrities, so they have the opportunity to do something great with this limelight. I, for one, have no problem with Kanye running for president, because if it's something that he truly believes in and it can lead to greater good, why not? I'm all for that.

Music must awaken people to do their duty as citizens and act.

I'm not going to let anyone tell me that I can't perform, that I'm not artistic.

I'm going to make the music I wish someone else was making.

This is a country that I love and that I believe in, but at the same time also believe that you should, as a part of this country, have the right to be able to talk very clearly about the issues that are happening, going on.

I've become more of a citizen and more of an activist.

I fight for the right to be an individual. I have to be meself.

Everybody has the right to decide their own fate.

I am a person who cares deeply about what is happening in the country, and for me, in most ways since getting out of the service, at least, politics has been the way in which I see myself best serving and trying to make things better.

As a human being, I am a citizen, but as an artist, I am asocial.