Sentence examples for wise citizens from inspiring English sources

To quote Bertrand Russell, we can make it right with an education that gives "a sense of the value of things other than domination, to help create wise citizens of a free community".

This is the task of a liberal education: to give a sense of the value of things other than domination, to help create wise citizens of a free community, and through the combination of citizenship with liberty in individual creativeness to enable men to give to human life that splendour which some few have shown that it can achieve (Russell 1938 251).

History is like the atmosphere: one tends not to notice it until it blows foul, but it's a wise citizen who takes careful and steady note of its presence.

However, over time later Stoics moved away from this classical concern with participation in specific cities, to a new ideal of a cosmic city in which all and only the wise are citizens.

Such a conception of liberalism and democracy, however, will not only reveal its inability to offer wise representation to citizens.

The two Chinese leaders promise their citizens wise stewardship and rising prosperity in return for political quiescence, but suddenly they have the appearance of vulnerability.

You see the wise, optimistic young citizens of "Spellbound," whether struggling or triumphant, and you see the whole package that is America, imperfect and heartbreaking as it sometimes is.

Vaughan Gething received a huge applause when he said: "We face the full force of everything Cardiff Council can deploy to frustrate the wises of its citizens.

It remains to be seen whether it was a wise decision, but UK citizens recently exercised their democratic right by voting to leave the comparatively less democratic EU.

As CCP officials in Beijing and Urumchi celebrate on October 1 by witnessing a parade of China's military and economic success, they would be wise to consider those citizens who have been the losers in the sixty years of CCP administration.

He was a wonderful, dedicated son, father, husband, and citizen; a wise and analytical advisor; and terrific company.