Active Citizenry Quotes

#1. Contrary to what most people believe, trust is not some soft, illusive quality that you either have or you don't; rather, trust is a pragmatic, tangible, actionable asset that you can create.

Stephen Covey

#2. The others laughed and Burt said, All you need are girls who paddle like boys, and you're set!

Carolyn Keene

#3. 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.

Don Tapscott

#4. What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

Horace

#5. Love is sacred state of mind, body and soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Ego and conditionings are created by mind, which is a myth.

Nirmala Srivastava

#7. You can never really pay back. You can only pay forward.

Woody Hayes

#8. The economic function of space industrialization is to generate jobs on Earth, not in space.

Krafft Arnold Ehricke

#9. Ensuring that we have a well-informed public citizenry is important for a well-functioning democracy, and that in turn requires an active and diverse media.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#10. The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

Alain De Botton

#11. European government is a clear expression I still use, you need time, but step by step, as in the Austrian case, the European Commission takes a political decision and behaves like a growing government.

Romano Prodi

#12. Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

Rick Perry

#13. Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

Casey Stengel