Narendra Modi Quotes

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

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.

The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

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

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

Forget being an actor-director: we, as citizens, have the responsibility to make the country a better place. And that doesn't mean advertising other people's agendas; it means looking at what is wrong and making it right.

Our responsibility as citizens is to keep doing our part.

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.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

We are bound by ideals that teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these ideals. Every citizen must uphold them.... I ask you to be citizens. Citizens, not spectators. Citizens, not subjects. Responsible citizens building communities of service and a nation of character.

Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.

By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning.

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.

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

Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.

We must all assume out responsibilities to take the country forward.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

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.

A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself.