#zen

We wish to be citizens of the United States or citizens of Puerto Rico. In either case, with all the inherent rights of a natural sovereignty. ↗

— Jose de Diego

#citizens #either #inherent #natural #puerto

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them. ↗

— Charles Edison

#believers #bosses #citizens #constantly #democracy

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#becoming #been #citizen #consequently #diminished

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#colleagues #desk #doubt #dozen #initials

The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers. ↗

— Peter Fraser

#best #broadly #citizens #country #education

Control your own Destiny or somebody else will ↗

— Jack Welch

#e-zsigma #islss #kaizen #leadership #lean

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#alike #black #citizens #devoid #master

The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#citizens #composed #conspiracy #defendant #eminent

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. ↗

— William Gibson

#box #experience #frozen #human #human experience

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments. ↗

— Bob Goodlatte

#businesses #cities #citizens #developments #farms