The citizen is a person inclined to seek her or his own welfare through the well-being of the city

The 'citizen' is a person inclined to seek her or his own welfare through the well-being of the city – while the individual tends to be lukewarm, sceptical or wary about 'common cause', 'common good', 'good society' or 'just society'.

Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity (Polity Press, 2012) p. 36