Top 1200 Informed Citizens Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

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

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

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

Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed.

Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should be made the central concern of modern politics. Public judgment, in the words of Benjamin Barber, is a function of commonality that can be exercised only by citizens interacting with one another in the context of mutual deliberation and decision.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them... He recognizes no national goal except as it is the consensus of the goals that the citizens severally serve. He recognizes no national purpose except as it is the consensus of the purposes for which the citizens severally strive.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

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

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

Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!

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

Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.

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

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

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

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

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

Now the good of political life is a great political good. It is not a secular good specified by a comprehensive doctrine like those of Kant or Mill. You could characterize this political good as the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another: the duty to give citizens public reasons for one's political actions.

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

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion.

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

[T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is] to refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations.

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

I see my role as sort of an informed outsider.

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

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

Customers are very demanding and well informed.

Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post.

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

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

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

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

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.

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

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.

At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.

I'm not a momentary decision maker. I like well-informed decisions.

Active people to revitalize what is really the root of democracy: citizens communicating with each other. Democracy is not just about voting, it's about citizens talking with each other about the issues which concern them. We've lost a great deal of that in the age of the mass media.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

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

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

A republican form of government requires four standards: It demands a highly educated population manifesting critical thinking that participates in the affairs of the nation. It requires that citizens invest in a similar moral code. It insists on a mutual ethical system abided by all. It must engender a single language whereby all citizens can discuss, debate, come to resolution and initiate mutual beneficial action for their society.

You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.

Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease.

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

Think about how tangible it would be to the citizens of Washington State to finally have the Hanford nuclear site cleaned up. Think about how tangible it would be to the citizens along the Hudson River to fix that pollution. These are some of the most direct things we can do to benefit our environment.

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

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

The role of the government is not to solve religious or sectarian or ethnic problems. These are age-old. I don't think any government of the day can solve all differences. But the government of the day can deliver to our citizens and show our citizens that they are equal in front of the law.

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

I am reluctant to judge things without being informed.

Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.

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