Quotes About Public

We are propping up a government that has overreached its bounds in the name of public safety," FM said. "The people must speak up and rise against the upper class who holds them enslaved!

Earthly love and heavenly love irreconcilably oppose each other ... No mediation exists between the law of the public sphere and the willingness to be without restraint; between the two spheres there is nothing - to be sure, the positive nothing, the nothing of freedom.

Between the two poles of community - blood and ideal - stretches the enormous and, to a certain degree, indeterminate public sphere, which is not quite comprehensible in either political or economic terms and where the entire risk of the humiliation of human dignity is given.

But in practical politics, it does not matter what is true, but everything depends upon what the people believe to be true.

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

L'opinione pubblica è un tiranno assai debole, paragonata alla nostra opinione personale. Ciò che determina o piuttosto indica il fato di un uomo è l'opinione che egli ha di se stesso.

so long as the interest of the whole society requires it, that is, so long as the established government cannot be resisted or changed without public inconvenience, it is the will of God … that the established government be obeyed—and no longer. This principle being admitted, the justice of every particular case of resistance is reduced to a computation of the quantity of the danger and grievance on the one side, and of the probability and expense of redressing it on the other.

For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000, 000. They will have that much taken away from them which they would otherwise have spent on the things they needed most.

either immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending must be raised through a dollar of taxation.

Taxation for public housing destroys as many jobs in other lines as it creates in housing.

So the government launches on a gigantic housing program—at the taxpayers' expense.

It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths.

Laméntase a menudo que los demagogos logren mayor asenso al exponer públicamente sus despropósitos económicos que los hombres de bien al denunciar sus fallos.

Por cada dólar gastado en el puente habrá un dólar menos en el bolsillo de los contribuyentes. Si el puente cuesta un millón de dólares, los contribuyentes habrán de abonar un millón de dólares, y se encontrarán sin una cantidad que de otro modo hubiesen empleado en las cosas que más necesitaban.

When Milly smiled it was a public event—when she didn't it was a chapter of history. They

Well, said Winterbourne, when you deal with natives you must go by the custom of the place. Flirting is a purely American custom; it doesn't exist here. So when you show yourself in public with Mr. Giovanelli, and without your mother— Gracious!

He found on the spot the image of his recent history; he was like one of the figures of the old clock at Berne. THEY came out, on one side, at their hour, jigged along their little course in the public eye, and went in on the other side. He too had jigged his little course--him too a modest retreat awaited.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

It's as though there were two melodies going on simultaneously: one for private exploitation and the other for the public ear. The whole struggle is to squeeze into the public record some tiny essence of the perpetual inner melody.

Even though the voters were overwhelmingly in favor of the three-dollar tag, the highway department wasn't about to get off the public tit without putting up a fight.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.

I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science, and it was right there for the public discussion, but it's not yet adequately sort of percolated out into policy or even just public wisdom.

'War of the Worlds' was a goof delivered as news bulletins. It was the beginning of an erosion that now has us in trouble. We just don't know where to get the truth. It was a piece made 56 years ago with all good intentions that still abused the public's trust. It was that little marble, that little push, and now no one trusts the media.