Quotes About Awareness

Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.

When someone offers me a job or a project, I always ask myself, "What does it tell me about the world?" and "Have I seen it before?" Two good questions.

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.

I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.

People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.

The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.

In adopting the republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better, for worse, but, what few men do with their wives, I took it knowing all its bad qualities.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

I don't think any government has the means to protect us from the world reality.

We should view our government the way we should a friendly, cuddly lion. Just because he's friendly and cuddly shouldn't blind us to the fact that he's still got teeth and claws.

And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.

Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.

Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.