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Citizenry Quotes

How the public gets talked about, and treated

These are political observations about the citizenry — how patriotic rhetoric can reshape what counts as treason, and how weakened institutions leave the public exposed.

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

Quotes by William Blum

You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have...

Quotes by Sharron Angle

Cultivating a thoughtful citizenry is a project for educators, parents, and religious and community leaders as much as tech leaders.

Quotes by Ro Khanna

Democracy requires an informed citizenry able to question its government.

Quotes by Richard N. Haass

Able Quotes

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Quotes by Phillip E. Johnson

The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

Quotes by Maurice Hinchey

It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

Quotes by Maurice Hinchey

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...

Quotes by Kamisese Mara

Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase...

Quotes by Jonathan Haidt

About Quotes

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

Quotes by Ezra Taft Benson

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

Quotes by David Blunkett

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

Quotes by David Brin

The most dangerous thing a member of Congress could do is to ignore the citizenry who have taken up the mantle of reporting since they weren't getting the truth from the co-opted mainstream outlets.

Quotes by Dana Loesch

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.

Quotes by Conrad Burns

American Quotes

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Quotes by Carl Sagan

We lack an educated, resilient citizenry capable of navigating the increasing complexities of daily life.

Quotes by Ben Sasse

I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance, environmental conservation, or national thrift. You cannot understand the...

Quotes by Andrew Solomon

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these citizenry quotes discuss?
They examine the citizenry's relationship to institutions and power, from a critique of patriotic rhetoric, to weakened courts and public fear of instability, to price gouging by oil companies against ordinary people.
Is there a quote critiquing how patriotic rhetoric is used?
Yes, one argues that patriotism functions almost like a state religion, one that has convinced much of the citizenry that disloyalty is treated as morally worse than serious violent crime. It's a pointed critique of how patriotic language can be used to shut down dissent, not a comment on any specific crime.
Why would someone search for quotes about the citizenry?
It's a more formal word than 'people' or 'public,' often used in political and historical writing, so readers researching civic institutions or political rhetoric look here for precise, quotable language.
Does this page mention the citizenry and gun rights?
One quote describes a conservative worldview in which a disarmed citizenry could be preyed upon by criminals, framing the issue as part of a broader good-versus-evil outlook on safety and law.
What other pages fit alongside this topic?
For more on national identity and public life, the American collection connects naturally, and the Community quotes page covers shared civic experience from another angle.

Others turn practical, from fears about an unarmed public to plain anger at a citizenry paying inflated prices — grounded takes worth reading with our Community quotes.