Top 136 Citizenry Quotes & Sayings

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Government has got to open up and engage citizenry as partners.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

We lack an educated, resilient citizenry capable of navigating the increasing complexities of daily life.

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.

I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated.

Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.

[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.

Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.

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 visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

A civically engaged citizenry feeds oxygen to our democracy.

Any time in America when the military has to stand in opposition of their own citizenry, something is wrong.

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.

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.

An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.

One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

The most dangerous thing a member of Congress could do is to ignore the citizenry who have taken up the mantle of reporting since they weren't getting the truth from the co-opted mainstream outlets.

Democracy requires an informed citizenry able to question its government.

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

Protecting space for civil society and citizenry is particularly critical in a world marked by rising political and economic inequality.

A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

Cultivating a thoughtful citizenry is a project for educators, parents, and religious and community leaders as much as tech leaders.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.

the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.

The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.

Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.

WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence

Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.

The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.

Going through intense change with an ignorant and apathetic citizenry, driven by a corporate agenda, is a really, really scary proposition. But going into it with an educated and empowered citizenry that feels it can determine the course of its society and can hold its corporations and governments accountable has a lot of power and potential to it. To me, that's what makes activism so important.

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

America already suffers from a uniformed and increasingly polarized citizenry. FOX seems to eagerly exploit this dynamic, and in so doing, accentuate it.

Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before

An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.

If we want to close the achievement gap, build a well-educated workforce and responsible citizenry, we must start with our youngest children.

The 'militia' was the entire adult male citizenry, who were not simply allowed to keep their own arms, but affirmatively required to do so.

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

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 the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.

The nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, it's strong enough to unplug me from the comedian's mind for a minute and just be a frustrated member of the citizenry.

The government needs to invest in raising digital fluency of its citizenry.

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.