34 quotes found
“[T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity and determination to weigh arguments and evidence rationally.”
“Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead were b...”
“You go on, I presume, with your latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust who is one of the most polished and perfect of the Roman Historians, every Period of whom, and I h...”
“The complexity of the so-called individual thats been praised for decades in America somehow has narrowed itself to the me. When I was a young girl we were called citizens American citizens. We we...”
“The Prussian monarchy is not a country which has an army, but an army which has a country in which as it were it is just stationed.”
“Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. So when my friends Joel and Stephen and I play hooky from our jobs in the midd...”
“Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.”
“The United States, almost alone today, offers the liberties and the privileges and the tools of freedom. In this land the citizens are still invited to write their plays and books, to paint their p...”
“The work of an intellectual is not to form the political will of others; it is, through the analyses he does in his own domains, to bring assumptions and things taken for granted again into questio...”
“Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.”
“This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework that would guarantee that t...”
“Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins.”
“The complexity of the so-called individual that’s been praised for decades in America somehow has narrowed itself to the ‘me’. When I was a young girl we were called citizens – American citizens. W...”
