#citizens

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

#citizens #freeing #illusion #nation #occupation

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better. ↗

— Peter Singer

#behave #better #citizens #could #dark

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#citizens #democracy #end #law-abiding #ruled

Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens. ↗

— David Suzuki

#business #citizens #disputes #favor #help

This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#citizens #discrimination #ethnic #iraq #iraqi

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

#citizens #depreciate #future #just #more

Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#citizens #countless #hamas #homicide #hundreds

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#classes #criminal #good #good citizens #government

It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed. ↗

— Joel Barlow

#because #citizens #people #safety

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#citizens #ever #government #scrutinize #should