The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the… — Conrad Burns Copy Share Image
The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever. — Maurice Hinchey Copy Share Image
Cultivating a thoughtful citizenry is a project for educators, parents, and religious and community leaders as much as tech leaders. — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the… — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning,… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
It was during the eighteenth century - a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution - that… — Joyce Lee Malcolm Copy Share Image
Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Going by current developments, India is sure to catch up - not in 50, but in another 20 years - with America...… — Dr Deepak Hiwale, aka 'Dr Dee Copy Share Image
That whole idea of threats to national security is a very interesting one. The phrase is very useful for the government to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I think it's something that the citizenry needs to be vigilant about - participating in democracy, and that includes issues like what's… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today's political leaders demonstrate their low opinion of the public with every social law they pass. They believe that, if given the… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom. — David Platt Copy Share Image
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly… — Margaret Spellings Copy Share Image
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