Quotes About Informed

Religion decays, the icon remains; a narrative is forgotten, yet its representation still magnetizes (the ignorant eye triumphs – how galling for the informed eye).

Man is designed to be a comprehensivist .

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.

An informed patriotism is what we want.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

I have been informed repeatedly that in lieu of records, I would be expected to testify about my service in the White House to demonstrate my experience and judicial philosophy.

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

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.

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.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

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.

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.

I'm on the Internet. I stay informed. They let old people on the Internet, you know.

Even for the most minimal definitions of democracy—as a mechanism to ensure peaceful turnovers in power after a process of popular will-formation —it is crucial that citizens be well informed about politics; otherwise, governments can hardly be held accountable.

For the most part, the evidence shows that individual Americans do not care a great deal about politics and are rather poorly informed, unstable in their views, and not much interested in participating in the political process. These findings have led some observers to assert that citizens are ill-equipped for the responsibility of self-governance and that public opinion (the will of the majority) should not be the ultimate determinant of what government does.

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. (on atomic energy)

I'm not super aware of what's the coolest thing and what everybody's doing or listening to or watching at any given time.