Democracy Quote by Mary Beard

Democracy requires an informed citizenry able to question its government.

— Richard N. Haass

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

— Kofi Annan

There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate…

— Anonymous

Information is the currency of democracy.

— Thomas Jefferson

“The utility of information is admitted practically as well as theoretically; without a literate population a modern State is impossible. But the utility of…

— Bertrand Russell

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

— Gerald R. Ford

Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

— Molly Ivins

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

— Katharine Graham

“Democracy requires accountability and consent of the governed, which is only possible if citizens know what is being done in their name.”

— Glenn Greenwald

Democracy means decision by those concerned.

— Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker