Citizens Quote by Leon Wieseltier Download Open image “A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy,” — Leon Wieseltier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Citizens Delinquents Democracy Inspirational Love
“Thinking citizens are no good to democracy, either you obey blind or be branded a terrorist. Either you hold your mouth, mind and backbone,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public deliberation, democracy will… — Kevin Mattson Copy Share Image
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is a device that ensures the people shall be governed no better than they deserve. — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
Without democracy, we are voiceless subjects. But with it, we are citizens armed with the power to change our destinies. — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
The democratic thought is based on that 'ordinary people' are suitable to rule themselves. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful.… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered, — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve. — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
“The police ultimately pay the price for poor customer service when citizens become fearful of them.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
