Citizenry Quotes - Page 4

• Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Fighting, Catholic Religion

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom".

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Liberty, Criminals

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• Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys and girls of each community? Have they grown up to believe in politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without effort, wealth without work, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice?

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Girl, Strong, Integrity

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

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• The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to make the important decisions. That's what traditional history is all about: the laws that were passed, the decisions made by the court. So much of history is built around "the great men." All of that is very anti-democratic.

  Howard Zinn

  Men, Law, Decision

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• That whole idea of threats to national security is a very interesting one. The phrase is very useful for the government to try to encompass the citizenry in the same box as the government is in. To say, "We're all in this together. It threatens all of us."

  Howard Zinn

  Government, Ideas, Interesting

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• One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time.

  Jeff Cooper

  Country, Time, Gun

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• 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.

  Michael Moore

  Powerful, Wikileaks, Done

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• In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Farewell, Responsibility

  Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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• I think in America we have to get back to being the best educated general citizenry in the world and make sure we do not lose our lead in research, if we're to have a leadership position in the world.

  John Glenn

  Thinking, America, Research

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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• Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.

  Ryan Shapiro

  Democracy, Function, Informed Citizenry

  Source: news.vice.com

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• 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.

  Ryan Shapiro

  Government, Democracy, Information

  Source: news.vice.com

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• The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

  Marianne Williamson

  Government, Greek

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.

  Julius Caesar

  Hate, War, Blood

  "We're not all citizens of the US yet". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2002.

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• Invest time in languages and intercultural awareness. Focus on becoming part of global citizenry. In exchange for the opportunity to participate everywhere/anywhere in the world you have the obligation to do something productive, which will improve the world. Develop a personal mission, a desire to leave personal legacy.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Opportunity, Focus, Desire

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• As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is to let them grow up into young thugs who have to be sent to prison, not to mention the savings in the wear and tear on the nerves, property, and safety of the rest of the citizenry.

  Molly Ivins

  Growing Up, School, Kids

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• I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated.

  David O. McKay

  Father, Believe, Inspired

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• Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.

  Ralph Nader

  Motivated, Empowered, Organized

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• The 'militia' was the entire adult male citizenry, who were not simply allowed to keep their own arms, but affirmatively required to do so.

  Don Kates

  Adults, Males, Arms

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• That is to say, politics is essentially about the management of fear, an economy of fear, continually adjusting the level of fear to produce the right level of affect in the citizenry.

  Simon Critchley

  Levels, Adjusting, Management

  Simon Critchley (2008). “Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance”, Verso Books

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• The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely upon the moral stature of its user. It is equally useful in securing meat for the table, destroying group enemies on the battlefield, and resisting tyranny. In fact, it is the only means of resisting tyranny, since a citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized.

  Jeff Cooper

  Mistake, Mean, Gun

  Jeff Cooper (2002). “Art of the Rifle: Special Colour Edition”, p.8, Paladin Press

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• Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Might, Asks

  Ronald Reagan (1989). “Speaking my mind: selected speeches”, Simon & Schuster

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• The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.

  David Platt

  Body, Kingdoms, Christ

  David Platt (2015). “Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age”, p.209, Tyndale House

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• Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.

  Mark Steyn

  Self, Europe, Culture

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• Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.

  Mark Kingwell

  Needs, Creation, Members

  Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.38, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris-or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Dog, Eye, Cities

  Jeff Vandermeer (2007). “City of Saints and Madmen”, p.65, Spectra

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