Citizen Identity Quotes

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

Not all Muslims wish to express themselves in public through a communal religious identity. Identities are multiple, and some may wish to speak instead just as citizens in their professional capacity, through their political party, or their neighborhood body.

If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you

I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.

Capitalism has put democracy in trouble, because capitalism has tried to persuade us that being a private consumer is enough. That a citizen is nothing more than a consumer

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

I am as much a citizen of the world as I am of my country.

The government should stop emphasizing difference and engage with Muslims as citizens, not through their religious identity.

I'm an average citizen and always have been.

Why did I become a Canadian citizen? Not because I was rejecting being a U.S. citizen. At the time when I became a Canadian citizen, you couldn't be a dual citizen. Now you can. So I had to be one or the other. But the reason I became a Canadian citizen was because it simply seemed so abnormal to me not to be able to vote.

The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.

Up until the point that you're a citizen, we wanna continue to make sure we understand who you are and why you're here.

I think one of the big challenges facing modern liberalism is that there's not a great emotional appeal to an international identity, like a citizen-of-the-world identity.

I am an American citizen, and I have visited Israel on a couple of occasions.

I'm a citizen of the U.S.A but I also travel around the world and love other countries like the UK as if it was my own. I love your tolerance and preservation of the arts.

I am a human being, a citizen of the Russian Federation, a Russian.