Adora Svitak Quotes

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.

Democracy depends on well educated and engaged citizens.

I'm not really a current events guy, sadly.

I don't have a problem with athletes speaking up, but I want to make sure before they speak up, they read up.

If we can get people engaged in the world around them in any form, in any way, that's a positive thing, and hopefully we can get them to come to the news more.

Obviously I think politics is interesting and important and educational.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

We live in such extreme times that I think we all have a responsibility to be aware of what's happening and talk about it.

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

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

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

An educated people can be easily governed.

I wanted to better inform the world.

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

Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much going on for us not to get involved.

I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.