Quotes About Public discourse

Freedom of expression truly exists only when a society's most repugnant nitwits are allowed to spew their nonsense in public.

Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot.

Population thinking is itself a population of mental and public things. Philosophers' discussions of what population thinking really is are members of this population. So is the text you just read, and so is your reading of it.

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?

We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.

I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.

By now, sympathy for the plight of the polar bears had largely disappeared from public discourse. Instead of beautiful mammals deserving of out preservation efforts, they came to be known as a marauding horde of beasts surfing a climatic anomaly that was laying waste to Canada.

Y es que diversión y educación hacen a los ciudadanos laboriosos y responsables. Ayudan a eso los saraos públicos, cafés y casas de conversación, juegos de pelota, teatros... —Y

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.

Every time you engage in a political debate, there is a guaranteed headache from the comment section, from the reaction from everything.

Obama's claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take.

It was Luntz who persuaded conservatives to stop talking about "global warming" because it sounded too scary and suggested human agency. Instead, he brought "climate change" into our public discourse on the grounds that "climate" sounded kind of nice (think palm trees) and change just happens, with no human agency.

One way for progressives to counter such hidden agendas is to discuss them openly. We need to get beyond how conservatives are framing the issues publicly and point out their real goals. And

Because of the systemic effect of runaway personal and corporate wealth on our politics, both are systemically linked to the threat of global warming to the future of our planet, and to the fundamental split in our politics that is systemically threatening democracy in ways that are not obvious, and are therefore also unframed in public discourse.

Almost immediately after Obama's inauguration in 2009, the Republicans regained framing superiority in public discourse, and that played a major role in the ascendancy of the Tea Party in Congress and in state houses throughout the nation. Now Republicans are setting their framing sights on the cities as well as the states. What happened?

It is vital that progressives understand why just citing the facts doesn't work, and why attention to public discourse must be constant, not just focused on elections.

Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

It's better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another in the public square.

The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.

One way of seeing all this was as a symptom of postmillennial decay, the degradation of public discourse, and the encroachment of celebrity worship into the arena of national affairs. Another way of looking at it was as an indication of the GOP's state of disarray. Then there was the way Trump perceived the thing: as a manifestation of his magnificence...

There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment -- anywhere.

when they lived in Rochester, every newspaper, parlor, and street corner buzzed with talk about mesmerism and phrenology, abolition and suffrage.