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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.


Chinua Achebe

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An educated person is a fellow who is morally sound both in character & in thinking.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A robust democracy requires active participation.
PETE GALLEGO Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.
PHYLICIA RASHAD Our Founding Fathers, who are cited so frequently and appropriately on this floor, believed deeply t...
BILL FRIST Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
BRAD HENRY A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant...
CHARLES W. PICKERING True leadership had never only been by example; orchestration of the wills of followers is an added ...
JOSEPH ANNANG SOWAH A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated ...
JAMES B. STOCKDALE A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated ...
JAMES B. STOCKDALE The most rebellious thing you can do is get educated. Forget what they told you in school. Get educa...
JOSS SHELDON A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are...
HAMZA YUSUF Our children have to be educated in the values of equality, freedom of choice and democracy,
EHUD BARAK Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educat...
G. K. CHESTERTON Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educat...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educat...
G.K. CHESTERTON She felt that if you educated a woman, you educated a family.
CECILIA MRUK You’re white. You’re straight. You’re well educated, healthy and beautiful. Every time is for ...
TIFFANY REISZ More of an educated guess.
CURTIS SHAW Educated idiots are the most fearsome creatures in a leadership structure because even though traine...
DONAVAN NELSON BUTLER, MASTER SERGEANT US ARMY A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA We have been educated that staying active is one of the key ways to staying healthy.
DAVE FULLERTON There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identi...
AGA KHAN IV An educated people can be easily governed.
FREDERICK THE GREAT It is so very easy to manipulate an educated person's actions and beliefs. Just have another educate...
TROY J. GAINEY I think it's a mistake for these highly educated and capable women to make that choice [to stay home...
LINDA HIRSHMAN We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and po...
ANDREAS SCHLEICHER An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.
HARUKI MURAKAMI we are all born educated, but we need education to be educated
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I study to learn, to be an educated person.
GARY SINISE In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated unders...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some ...
JOHN KEEGAN Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.
CORY BOOKER Highly educated women should challenge social taboos and get married to a man who is less educated, ...
LU JIANMIN In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democra...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN An educated mind is an open mind that can absorb diverse possibilities.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I think that is very harmful to the nature of our democratic politics because, not unlike the market...
DAVID OLSON My parents were marvelously educated people.
STEPHEN FRY Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentleman.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW When you're looking at risk, you're always doing an educated guess.
CAROL DUNCAN A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
BRANDER MATTHEWS A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect
HORACE PORTER There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more...
ANGELINA JOLIE PITT! The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule,...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jes...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in i...
MICHAEL MOORE I've over-educated myself in all the things I shouldn't have known at all
NOEL COWARD We're looking at a healthy, robust market.
BRAD NISBET This Queen right here is educated and beautiful with a degree.
STEPHANIE LAHART The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
ALBEN WILLIAM BARKLEY The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.
ALBEN W. BARKLEY The biggest obstacle commercial diet plans face today is an educated public.
NANCY S. MURE A strong economy begins with a strong, well-educated workforce.
BILL OWENS Without a experience, how can we be truly educated?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If I was educated, I'd be a damn fool.
BOB MARLEY To be truly educated, a man needs his experience.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Wit is educated insolence.
ARISTOTLE Wit is educated insolence.
UNKNOWN In an information age, in a technology-based global economy, we must have the most productive and be...
JOHN HOEVEN He has watched jobs and people leave. Mostly young, well educated people -- our future. But disconte...
DEVAL PATRICK Time is an illusion that arises from the educated perception of human senses and mind to the changes...
TOBA BETA An educated man without ambition is as badly off as an ambitious man without education.
VIKRANT PARSAI Black, intelligent, and educated... Now that’s POWER.
STEPHANIE LAHART It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
ARISTOTLE It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it
ARISTOTLE It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
ARISTOTLE ARISTOTLE The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.
MARK TWAIN Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
NORMAN COUSINS A man needs his experience in order to be educated.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Education is dangerous - Every educated person is a future enemy
HERMANN GOERING Education is dangerous - Every educated person is a future enemy
HERMANN GOERING A lot of environmentalists we dealt with were kooks. They were not well educated; they were opiniona...
JIM GRIFFITHS A person educated in mind and not in morals is a menace to society
JUANITA KIDD STOUT There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS An educated man who studies hammer but doesn’t know anything about an anvil is an uneducated man.
VIKRANT PARSAI You get educated by traveling.
SOLANGE KNOWLES Only the educated are free.
EPICTETUS He's educated me in wrestling.
REY MYSTERIO Educated men are so impressive!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
PLATO It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the i...
JAMES BALDWIN It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde...
JAMES BALDWIN It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde...
JAMES A. BALDWIN It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the indepen...
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the indepen...
JAMES BALDWIN If You want to be an educated person follow nobody, but learn from everybody
JAN JANSEN EASY BRANCHES My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
GARY VAYNERCHUK I came home more educated myself with many of my misconceptions corrected. These (African) women are...
LINDA GENTILE This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a r...
DANNY GLOVER more schooled, more educated, a little wiser, and hopefully I can do a better job.
BOB GOLDSTEIN My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.
DAMIAN WOETZEL A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.
LYN NOFZIGER A well-educated populace is the backbone of our middle-class.
MARK POCAN The idea that there’s good and evil knowledge . . . well, that’s strictly a religious point of v...
DEAN KOONTZ Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.
EPICTETUS If you stick to the old values and say that you were educated in this way, so you were trained in th...
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