Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
Martha Gellhorn
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MARTHA GELLHORN The problem is not to condemn or to support. The occupation obliges us to defend ourselves.
YUSSEF RIZKA No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES Education is the process by which the individual relates himself to the universe, give himself citiz...
JOHN FINLEY You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities.
PAUL COLLIER See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but t...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We wanted people to take away a feeling of responsibility. Hopefully, when you visit this museum, yo...
DAVID GRANGE No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES Do not miss the moment of making something happening today by worrying which would not make better t...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself,...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to th...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord True it is that every man willingly foll...
THOMAS À KEMPIS It is a Blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough to stand by his own...
ROBERT INGERSOLL Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself,...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.
BILL DIXON It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, pe...
WALTER LIPPMANN They changed the rules and said I had to be a citizen. Either your parents or you have to have citiz...
DAVID AARDSMA I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world
SOCRATES He had worked out long ago that police officers evaluated a citizen on the
basis of three facto...
ALAA AL ASWANY It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-...
H.L. MENCKEN Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil an...
MAHMOUD ABBAS To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.
KLOPSTOCK He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave.
KLOPSTOCK The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equ...
EDMUND BURKE He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still,
Which he may adhere to, yet di...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official s...
EVELYN WAUGH If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to ''a semi-official...
EVELYN WAUGH The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental...
ROBERT KENNEDY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I t...
MARK STEYN Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence...
WILLIAM GODWIN Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequenc...
WILLIAM GODWIN A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compas...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base...
SAMUEL WILSON Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a defer...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling th...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL Dave is one of my favorite sources of information and opinion on the Web. His opinions are passionat...
DOUGLAS ADAMS In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town bo...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education ...
ISAIAH BOWMAN The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.
MARCEL PAGNOL People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is e...
BILL KELLER For many years, when still a Yugoslav citizen, I was already a Swiss patriot, and in 1959, I obtaine...
VLADIMIR PRELOG No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that contin...
KOFI ANNAN Starting over is opportunity informed by failure, which is opportunity made intelligent.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
ALBERT CAMUS If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that...
HORATIO NELSON A person’s own opinion is the best companion of his life, but first search it on web to ensure tha...
ANUJ SOMANY I am asking the state of Israel to revoke my citizenship. This wish for revocation of citizenship is...
MORDECHAI VANUNU This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the...
DAVID EDDINGS He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is en...
HARLAN ELLISON We believe that the illegal occupation of Iraq by Multinational Forces is the root cause of the inse...
CAROL ROSE It is much harder to be lonely, when you have for a while stopped being lonely. I was used to having...
MARTHA GELLHORN You can always tell when a man is well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
LOUIE MORRIS petty, vindictive and not very well-informed autocratic leader who is enamored of his own sense of g...
THAKSIN SHINAWATRA No matter how you sugarcoat it, whether you call it a 'pathway to citizenship' or 'earned citizenshi...
DAN STEIN The man who writes has an oppressive and unhappy fate. This is because the nature of his work oblige...
N. KAZANTZAKIS We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts.
PATRICK MOYNIHAN Once and for all, we will be able to see if he can make a tough choice and live up to his own promis...
BILL MAGAVERN What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and tho...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, st...
ERIC SHINSEKI I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
MARTHA GELLHORN People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers ...
MARTHA GELLHORN I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
MARTHA GELLHORN Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned ...
MARTHA GELLHORN It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
MARTHA GELLHORN Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste...
MARTHA GELLHORN Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which...
MARTHA GELLHORN The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this...
MARTHA GELLHORN Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the pa...
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MARTHA GELLHORN Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste o...
MARTHA GELLHORN People do not yet realize (because the mind isn't built that way) what war can be. They fear it but ...
MARTHA GELLHORN I love you. Have a hell of a good time. I don’t really know what else is worth having.
MARTHA GELLHORN And this urge to run away from what I love is a sort of sadism I no longer pretend to understand.
MARTHA GELLHORN I didn't write. I just wandered about.
MARTHA GELLHORN Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He ...
MARTHA GELLHORN After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years...
MARTHA GELLHORN Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.
MARTHA GELLHORN The thing about war is that it has two sides, ... The first is the absolute horror of it. The other ...
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MARTHA GELLHORN [Alda concluded by invoking the words with which Jennings had closed his final broadcast in April, w...
ALAN ALDA The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant...
MITCH KAPOR Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action a...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action a...
JAMES F. COOPER Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and w...
JOHN BURROUGHS the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by ...
JOHN STUART MILL Voice your opinion. It could make all the difference
SOTONYE ANGA A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indee...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact...
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MARTHA WASHINGTON When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense percepti...
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MARTHA STEWART I think it's also safe to say genre TV and movies were a big influence - the first stories I eve...
MARTHA WELLS I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.
MARTHA MCSALLY Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Wel...
MARTHA MCSALLY Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means havi...
MARTHA BECK The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting.
MARTHA REEVES People love me everywhere. On an unofficial level, I'm an ambassador and a civil servant for Detroit...
MARTHA REEVES Dancing in the Streets.
MARTHA REEVES Him being hands-on helped us all prosper.
MARTHA REEVES Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worr...
MARTHA BECK We go through a rigorous vetting process of products before they even get to Martha.
MARTHA STEWART Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill - and not just during high school English exams....
MARTHA BECK Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is...
MARTHA BECK We didn't wait for a holiday or a birthday or anything like that to get together. It was just the th...
MARTHA DAVIS If to dance is to dream, then you make dreams come true
MARTHA GRAHAM If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife or ...
MARTHA BECK The most beautiful destination I've been to was the Seychelles Islands, and the most culturally ...
MARTHA HUNT Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
MARTHA BECK I cannot count the times I've been defeated, humiliated, or physically injured immediately after...
MARTHA BECK My dog has the intellectual capacity of a lime wedge, yet even he possesses an elaborate set of assu...
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