Citizenry Quotes

73 quotes by 60 authors

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry. — Margaret Spellings
A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one. — Glenn Greenwald
A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this case,… — Matthew Yglesias
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation… — Don Tapscott
Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the… — Conrad Burns
Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be… — Jonathan Haidt
Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is a… — Jacob G. Hornberger
Our society on a whole is trained to see young women. There are proportionally far more of them on magazine covers, on TV, and in… — Victoria Moran
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. — Phillip E. Johnson
When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then… — David Mamet
Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the… — Michael Moore
In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be… — Sandra Day O'Connor
Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society. — Bill O'Reilly
Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry. — Rick Perry
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. — Carl Sagan
Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry. — Scott Turow
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson
We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think. — Rod Serling
The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make… — Ann Druyan

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