Ordinary Citizens Quotes - Page 2

• If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin learning how that might be done. Sharing the Harvest is a great place to start.

  Joan Dye Gussow

  Ordinary, Citizens, Done

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• Los Estados Unidos que conozco son grandes, no porque el gobierno los haya hecho grandes, sino porque ciudadanos corrientes como yo, como mi padre y como usted, tienen cada día la oportunidad de hacer cosas extraordinarias.

  Mia Love

  Padre, Oportunidad, Gobierno

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• It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and aspirations, most of the citizens of big counties-those, that is, that have the status of being "powers" in the world-far from being self-centered or materialistic as they are commonly credited with being, the ordinary citizen and his elected representative all too often turn out to be romantics, ready and eager to sacrifice programs of health, education and welfare for the power and pride of the nation.

  J. William Fulbright

  Educational, Pride, Sacrifice

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• An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

  Patti Smith

  Artist, House, Ordinary

  "The Wisdom of Patti Smith" by Victoria Dawson Hoff, www.elle.com. December 30, 2013.

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• I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

  Vladimir Putin

  Mother, Father, Ordinary

  Interview with Mike Wallace, en.kremlin.ru. May 9, 2005.

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• The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Travel, Space, House

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• Mis sueños siempre fueron pequeños e insignificantes. Lo único que necesitaba era una casita con una pequeña valla junto al mar. Poco me imaginaba que viviría 20 años en el palacio de Malacanang y visitaría todos los grandes palacios de la humanidad. Y que también conocería a ciudadanos de a pie y a los líderes de las superpotencias.

  Imelda Marcos

  Sueño, Años, Mar

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• En cuanto a las jaulas en sí, un ciudadano de a pie que mantuviera perros en condiciones similares durante toda su vida correría el riesgo de ser procesado por crueldad. En cambio, un productor de cerdos que mantenga así a un animal de inteligencia comparable tiene más probabilidades de ser recompensado con una desgravación fiscal o, en algunos países, con una subvención directa del gobierno.

  Peter Singer

  Campo, Perro, Animal

  Peter Singer (1975). "La liberación animal: una nueva ética para nuestro trato con los animales".

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• Si me arrepiento de algo, podría decir que lamento no haber sido mejor escritor o mejor cantante... Cuando era más joven, sentía que mi deber era despertar a la gente. Pensaba que la poesía estaba dormida. Pensaba que el rock and roll estaba dormido... Un artista puede tener cargas que el ciudadano de a pie desconoce, pero el ciudadano de a pie tiene cargas que muchos artistas ni siquiera tocan.

  Patti Smith

  Perdón, Arrepentimiento, Artista

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• En una palabra, alejar el control del ciudadano de a pie y del contribuyente equivale a dar a los elementos inteligentes, previsores y de espíritu público de la sociedad una palanca más larga con la que trabajar.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  Inteligente, Dar, Democracia

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• Me temo que al ciudadano de a pie no le gustará que le digan que los bancos pueden crear dinero, y de hecho lo hacen... Y que quienes controlan el crédito de la nación dirigen la política de los gobiernos y tienen en el hueco de sus manos el destino del pueblo.

  Reginald McKenna

  Destino, Gobierno, Manos

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• La élite estadounidense está casi más allá de la redención. . . . El relativismo moral ha calado tan hondo que las clases doradas se han vuelto incapaces de discernir el bien del mal. Todo puede ser explicado, especialmente por los periodistas. La vida es una gran papilla moral, sofistería regada con Chardonnay. Los ciudadanos de a pie, gracias a Dios, todavía se adhieren a los absolutos.... Son ellos los que han salvado a la república de la degradación progresiva mientras sus "superiores" no hacían nada.

  Charles Dickens

  Class, Ordinary, Citizens

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• Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

  Kenzo Tange

  Design, Today, Ordinary

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• There is a denial of the value of the individual. Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it. The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race. The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.

  Clement Attlee

  Thinking, Race, Idols

  Clement Richard Attlee (1940). “War comes to Britain: speeches of the Rt. Hon. C. R. Atlee, M.P.”

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• [T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only defense the ordinary citizen has.

  Keith Olbermann

  Country, Struggle, Defense

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• No bastará con confiar en los expertos. Los ciudadanos de a pie deben convertirse también en expertos. Se necesitará una opinión pública a gran escala para garantizar que los líderes mundiales actúen.

  Mijaíl Gorbachov

  Communication, Leader, Ordinary

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• Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

  Charles Handy

  Spiritual, Grumbling, Ordinary

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• Drafts of domestic legislation must be published, debated and publicly voted on, which gives ample opportunities to civil society organizations and ordinary citizens to at least understand what's being proposed and to voice and to organize opposition before the decision is made.

  Thomas Pogge

  Opportunity, Organization, Voice

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• My central focus is creating employment for the ordinary citizen.

  Narendra Modi

  Creating, Focus, Ordinary

  Fuente: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• There are these two strands, the Dionysian and the Appollonian, and in the same theater grew up from these folks who during the day were just ordinary citizens, and at night they would sneak off to the woods and party.

  Howard Rheingold

  Party, Night, Two

  Fuente: medium.com

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• I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.

  Madeleine Albright

  Patriotic, Thinking, Tough Questions

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

  Vikram Seth

  Thinking, Important, Ordinary

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• Vivimos en un mundo en el que la mayoría de los avances realmente importantes en matemáticas, física, astronomía, política pública, psicología o música clásica son tan abstractos y complejos técnicamente y dependen tanto del contexto que es casi imposible que el ciudadano de a pie los considere relevantes para su vida real.

  David Foster Wallace

  Matemáticas, Psicología, Importante

  Entrevista con Dave Eggers, www.believermag.com. Noviembre de 2003.

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• The rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance on the rule of law clearly played a major role in transforming Western society from a world in which the ordinary citizen was literally subject to the arbitrary will of his master to a world in which the ordinary citizen could regard himself as his own master

  Milton Friedman

  Law, Ordinary, Doe

  Milton Friedman (1975). “There's no such thing as a free lunch”, Open Court Pub Co

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• Is this not true--That in proportion to the value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes than those of moderatemeans? Compare the amount paid by millionaires with the amount paid by ordinary citizens. I believe that in proportion to their estates they pay less than half as much as ordinary citizens, whereas they ought to pay more.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Believe, Pay, Ordinary

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