Top 1200 Informed Citizenry Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa.

Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed.

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 preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.

I would encourage you: be informed - knowledge is power.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance, environmental conservation, or national thrift. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered.

We can all make better decisions when we're informed.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Hold no more stocks than you can remain informed on.

We the voters demand the right to be in charge here, to be informed, to be empowered.

Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion.

If information is power, why are the powerful so ill informed?

Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.

Innocents don't learn from their sins; the chastened are informed by them.

The more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.

I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.

I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

I am still baffled by those who feel that criticizing America is unpatriotic, a view increasingly being adopted in the United States since 9/11 as an excuse to render suspect what has always been an American right. An active, brave, outspoken (and heard) citizenry is essential to a healthy democracy.

For all the venom and fear spewed at members of the 'religious right,' most of today's churches are left alone... the nonreligious tend to look at our churches as benign institutions that create a placid and docile citizenry, having little impact on our culture.

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

You cannot have 300-some million Americans - and really, right, the global citizenry be at risk of having their phone conversations intercepted with a known flaw, simply because some intelligence agencies might get some data. That is not acceptable.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is to let them grow up into young thugs who have to be sent to prison, not to mention the savings in the wear and tear on the nerves, property, and safety of the rest of the citizenry.

No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power.

What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.

You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

I see my role as sort of an informed outsider.

If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.

The visual of Deadpool was very informed by Spider-Man.

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

The listening community has the obligation of distinguishing informed opinion from tweets.

The purpose of the right to bear arms is twofold; to allow individuals to protect themselves and their families, and to ensure a body of armed citizenry from which a militia could be drawn, whether that militia's role was to protect the nation, or to protect the people from a tyrannical government.

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.

What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

The people in Chennai and Mumbai are equally cultured and well-informed.

An informed patriotism is what we want.

One ironic legacy of the Clinton administration is the rearming of the American citizenry. Each time Clinton and his friends in Congress threaten another round of anti-gun regulations, the American people respond by stocking up.

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

I just was raised always to question and be as informed as I can be.

That's not to say that I'm a well-informed Catholic. I'm still in idiot.

I go to my grandchildren. They keep their grandpa informed on what's going on.

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.

Customers are very demanding and well informed.

Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post.

A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty.

Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.

This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this country, and the overwhelming consensus of the citizenry, will be to pitch the Bill of Rights out the window and start rounding folks up.

It was during the eighteenth century - a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution - that Englishmen came to accept the Whig view of the utility of an armed citizenry. The armed citizen was not only affirmed to be protecting himself but, together with his fellows, provided the ultimate check on tyranny.

An informed electorate is foundational to the future of this Republic.

Inflation takes from the ignorant and gives to the well informed.