Words matter. These are the best Citizenry Quotes from famous people such as Phillip E. Johnson, Daniel Lubetzky, Ezra Taft Benson, Carl Sagan, Hamza Yusuf, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
America already suffers from a uniformed and increasingly polarized citizenry. FOX seems to eagerly exploit this dynamic, and in so doing, accentuate it.
An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.
Cultivating a thoughtful citizenry is a project for educators, parents, and religious and community leaders as much as tech leaders.
This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this country, and the overwhelming consensus of the citizenry, will be to pitch the Bill of Rights out the window and start rounding folks up.
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.
The government needs to invest in raising digital fluency of its citizenry.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
Cultivating a thoughtful citizenry is a project for educators, parents, and religious and community leaders as much as tech leaders.
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.
Democracy requires an informed citizenry able to question its government.
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.
If we want to close the achievement gap, build a well-educated workforce and responsible citizenry, we must start with our youngest children.
A civically engaged citizenry feeds oxygen to our democracy.
Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.
Protecting space for civil society and citizenry is particularly critical in a world marked by rising political and economic inequality.
We lack an educated, resilient citizenry capable of navigating the increasing complexities of daily life.
Lawsuits – and frivolous lawsuits – are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.
Lawsuits – and frivolous lawsuits – are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.
Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
Government has got to open up and engage citizenry as partners.
Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that’s its highest and best application.
Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.
In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a ‘third place,’ which is not their idea; it’s the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that’s its highest and best application.
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry – to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.
I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who’s in the military. This is not for law enforcement. This is for us. And, in fact, when you read that Constitution and the Founding Fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny.
We must rediscover our faith in the future and join with one another to ensure that nonviolence is the prevalent choice for government, law enforcement, the non-profit sector, business, education, media, entertainment, arts, and for the global citizenry.
America already suffers from a uniformed and increasingly polarized citizenry. FOX seems to eagerly exploit this dynamic, and in so doing, accentuate it.
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.
Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a ‘third place,’ which is not their idea; it’s the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
We must rediscover our faith in the future and join with one another to ensure that nonviolence is the prevalent choice for government, law enforcement, the non-profit sector, business, education, media, entertainment, arts, and for the global citizenry.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who’s in the military. This is not for law enforcement. This is for us. And, in fact, when you read that Constitution and the Founding Fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny.
An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.
Access to legitimate information and thoughtful analysis is the lifeblood of a democracy, the basis of which people make decisions about who they vote for and what they believe in. And if you’re only getting half the story, that certainly doesn’t lead to an informed citizenry.
Openness, transparency – these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt… and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.
Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.
In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
Access to legitimate information and thoughtful analysis is the lifeblood of a democracy, the basis of which people make decisions about who they vote for and what they believe in. And if you’re only getting half the story, that certainly doesn’t lead to an informed citizenry.
The nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, it’s strong enough to unplug me from the comedian’s mind for a minute and just be a frustrated member of the citizenry.
Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role – journalism’s role in a democracy is to provide information on profoundly important subjects so we’re an informed citizenry.
America’s state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that ‘treason’ is morally worse than murder or rape.
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.
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry – to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.
