Erich Fromm Quotes

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

What can government do? They can listen to their own people. But I'll tell you what citizens can do, when we elect one of these people - whether we think it's a good guy or a bozo - you got to stay on the case. You don't vote and go home and give them the keys to the car, he'll drive you right off a cliff. You have to help people to stay honest.

The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.

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.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

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

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

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

We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Democracy means not merely, I had almost said not so much, the rights of the whole people, as the duties of the whole people.

It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

We as citizens should hold our government accountable for word and deed.

People should look at the government as 'us,' not as 'them' and not in terror.

I think it doesn't actually matter what your political persuasion is, but if you are interested in the country that you live in and the way in which it's run, everyone has to do something about that.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community and I use the word very loosely. It's a big community. If I get recognized in the middle of the Sinai Desert I have a big community.

Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.

United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us.

I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.

Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.