Top 1200 Informed Citizenry Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.

Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are... because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.

I would say that 'After the Storm' is much more informed by my personal life than my other movies.

You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.

So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing.

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.

Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on.

Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.

Read books and keep informed. The conversation can get old if you don't have some good new topics to bring to the table.

The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.

Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

I work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience.

Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting your own rights in jeopardy - quite aside from undermining any moral basis for respecting anybody's rights. You are opening the floodgates to arbitrary power. And once you open the floodgates, you can't tell the water where to go.

I thought Obama was brilliant. He's so informed. He's circumspect. He's articulate. He's thoughtful. Well, I think in my lifetime, there's never been anything like it.

I go through phases of watching a ton of dance/performance, and I am bizarrely well-informed on the subject.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just as informed by Surrealism and mythology.

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

Having a life outside of movies is like pure oxygen. It makes the work more precious and informed.

Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

In a world overloaded with information and content, there is simply no excuse for fans to be ill-informed about women's football.

The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.

My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot. So we said, `Let's give him a promotion.'

The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to make the important decisions. That's what traditional history is all about: the laws that were passed, the decisions made by the court. So much of history is built around "the great men." All of that is very anti-democratic.

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

Costs should always be presented up front so that consumers can make informed choices and get a fairer deal.

Jayalalitha cannot be misled about anything. She is one of the most well informed persons today in Indian politics.

Make sure to be well informed before accepting the challenge of a commission - check out that you have a source of reference readily available.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.

It is important that voters be as informed as possible when they enter the polls May 9 to determine who has the experience, integrity and vision to lead Nebraska to excellence.

I don't mean to sound like a Pollyanna, but for me, New York is the ideal because of the diversity here. 'Billy on the Street' is really informed by that.

As New York City kids, you lived fast and partied hard as teenagers - experiences that informed your design aesthetic.

By giving students the proper tools to analyze the media they consume, we can empower them to make informed decisions.

Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?

For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one.

Social media has exacerbated a trend whereby people speak with complete authority on every subject, regardless of how informed they are.

I stayed only two days in the capital. I was welcomed by a cheering citizenry, who threw flowers at my head. It was disconcerting to think I could have put almost any young man in my retinue on a white horse and they would have thrown flowers at him instead. It was not me they cared about, only what I meant to them: a cessation of hostilities, a chance for prosperity, food on the table.

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

The fact that I'd gone through my own transition as governor of Indiana and had been informed by that experience, I think was an asset.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

Because my parents are Rwandan, there was always a lot of colour and artwork in our house and that informed my love of bright and vibrant clothes.

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

It's important to know enough about all of the candidates to make an informed choice, and our candidate is Hillary Clinton.

I find each project, although it's compartmentalized, informs me in some facet. I wake up everyday wanting to be informed.

No matter what lifestyle you choose, when it comes to eating, we should all as consumers have a choice to make informed decisions. We shouldn't be misinformed or mislead.

The inability or unwillingness of citizens to differentiate between fake and authentic news is undermining a fundamental assumption of democracy: the informed voter.