#zen

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end. ↗

— Len Wein

#beginning #different #dozen #end #makes

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#head #his #man #shoulders #without

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#any #china #citizen #effort #equal

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#chinese #citizens #constitution #dangerous #express

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#asking #call #chance #citizens #forever

The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions. ↗

— Peter Welch

#attention #calling #campaign #citizen #cooperation

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application. ↗

— William Weld

#best #citizenry #contribute #government #highest

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government. ↗

— William Weld

#citizens #government #had #limit #people

Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less. ↗

— Allen West

#asks #citizens #coast #continually #country

I am an Israeli-born American citizen. ↗

— Guy Oseary

#american #american citizen #citizen #i #i am