Quotes About Citizenry

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

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

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

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.

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

Democracy, we now know, is more than periodic elections in some countries, such elections have been used to legitimize essentially authoritarian regimes and deprive large parts of the citizenry of basic rights.

As a librarian for 18 years at the Merck branch of the Trenton Public Library, I was sorely tested by the slow-witted and obtuse among the citizenry

The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic." And it is rapidly taking on many functions of a modern state, issuing its citizenry everything from driver's permits to fishing licenses.

One of the most effective means of self-persuasion available to a citizenry is the bestowal of property. Who actually owns a society's property, and how it is distributed, are far less important than the fact that property exists at all.

It is by no means an accident that the only successful attempt of the American citizenry to force the ending of a foreign war occurred simultaneously with a wide revision in sexual attitudes. The civilization quickly recovered from this threat, however, by tempting these revolutionaries into a new sexual politics, one of societal standoff, where sexual genius is confused with such struggles as the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment and the election of women to national office.

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

So commonplace was crucifixion in the Roman Empire that Cicero referred to it as "that plague." Among the citizenry, the word "cross" (crux) became a popular and particularly vulgar taunt, akin to "go hang yourself.

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

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

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.

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.

We have put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenryand said, you don't want the jobs that are available.

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