Quotes About Informed Citizens

#1. Crosswords do not informed citizens make.

J. A. Jance

#2. Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

Paul Collier

#3. While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized.

Ani DiFranco

#4. Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.

Jacques Barzun

#5. Stick with the Dips that are likely to pan out, and quit the Cul-de-Sacs to focus your resources

Seth Godin

#6. As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

Emmylou Harris

#7. You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done.

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. I really sucked at this whole "I am very attracted to you and would like to demonstrate this to you via attention and creative uses of my disposable income" thing.

Lia Habel

#9. Remember, being never happens comfortably, otherwise it would have happened to all. Remember, being cannot happen conveniently, otherwise everybody would have being without any problem. Being happens only when you take risks, when you move in danger.

Osho

#10. We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs.

Atifete Jahjaga

#11. It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

Willard Scott

#12. I'm caught between one void and another. I have no idea what's right, what's wrong. I don't even know what I want any more.

Haruki Murakami

#13. A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.

Rebecca Solnit

#14. The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream ... Hang in there.

James De La Vega

#15. Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#16. You are tied on [to God] with a bond that cannot be broken. And when you are tied on to God... you do not have to be afraid.

Angela Thomas

#17. An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.

Thomas Jefferson

#18. Running for and holding public office requires little more than making informed decisions based on the facts, your values, and getting to know your fellow citizens. You'll need the courage to be yourself, and a desire to do the right thing. Chances are you're doing that already. In

Marian Walsh

#19. Democracy cannot function or survive without a sufficient medium by which citizens remain informed and engaged in public policy debates.

Nancy Snow