Quotes About Public

I have become the chief minister not with a selfish motive.

Society is indeed better off when we share knowledge with one another and have open debates about the issues in the public arena, with the hands and motives of the players identified.

In other words, it is the amount of money that colleges and universities can get—from tuition, endowment income, donations, etc.—which determines how much their spending or costs will go up, not the other way around, as they represent it to the public. To say that costs are going up is no more than to say that the additional intake is being spent, rather than hoarded. When

Dado que las elecciones democráticas se realizan siempre a corto plazo, los políticos tienen todos los incentivos para extraer tanta riqueza como les sea posible del capital fijo bajo su jurisdicción, ya sea a través de impuestos, de la imposición de cargas sobre la propiedad o de la expropiación. Solamente la conciencia del público sobre las consecuencias a largo plazo puede limitar esta forma de explotación.

el éxito de los políticos no depende de que aprendan sus lecciones sobre historia o política, sino que depende mucho más de que tengan la capacidad de actuar en función de lo que es ampliamente creído por el público y los medios, lo que puede incluir teorías conspirativas o la creencia de que los precios más altos se deben al engaño o a la avaricia.

Adam Smith declared "the good temper and moderation of contending factions" to be "the most essential circumstance in the public morals of a free people."51 But what good temper or moderation can be expected when a major segment of the population becomes convinced that "the system is rigged" against them and morality is just a giant fraud?

Adam Smith declared "the good temper and moderation of contending factions" to be "the most essential circumstance in the public morals of a free people." But what good temper or moderation can be expected when a major segment of the population becomes convinced that "the system is rigged" against them and morality is just a giant fraud?

There is no evidence that suicide prevention prevents suicide. Psychiatrists and psychiatric hospitals are regularly sued and found liable for patient suicides. Psychiatrists kill themselves at three times the rate of the general public.

Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people. When it is a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the law; when it is a question of putting one person before another in positions of public responsibility, what counts is not membership of a particular class, but the actual ability which the man possesses.

even have our own catchphrase, the 'postcode lottery', to describe the scandal that standards vary from place to place. It is something of a national obsession. We want all of our public services to be like Coca-Cola: all identical, all good. And they can't be. If we are to take the 'variation

Ignorance' is probably the best word to describe public opinion on dietary fat, Harcombe said.

The consequences for public health have been nothing short of tragic, Teicholz said. It's quite likely, she argued, that by shifting towards a greater consumption of grains and other carbohydrates, the US guidelines have been a major contributor to the pandemics of obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

I suppose if we gain anything from this unsought experience it will be an appreciation for honesty- frankness on the part of our politicians, our friends, our loves, ourselves. No more liars in public places. (And the bed and the bar are, in their way, as public as the floor of Congress.)

other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain. Tim's long-term vision for his company is to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. For everything

make it public. It's not just disagreeing to be disagreeable (pet food! online!), it's disagreeing where you can build

Mamie now envisioned God's purpose for her life—and for her son's life: "I took the privacy of my own grief and turned it into a public issue, a political issue, one which set in motion the dynamic force that ultimately led to a generation of social and legal progress for this country."32

Mamie now envisioned God's purpose for her life—and for her son's life: "I took the privacy of my own grief and turned it into a public issue, a political issue, one which set in motion the dynamic force that ultimately led to a generation of social and legal progress for this country.

The one truism in all politics is that loud voices will be raised against any decision that is made.

The great democratic danger is enslavement to public opinion

Politicians are more concerned with "issues" than "principles," but talked as though the two nouns had the same meaning.

THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC WILL ENDURE UNTIL THE DAY CONGRESS DISCOVERS THAT IT CAN BRIBE THE PUBLIC WITH THE PUBLIC'S MONEY—ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE.

One of the problems with living in a free country was that anyone outside this palace/prison could think and say whatever he wished.

We become ads for ourselves under the pressure of the spectacle that flattens our experience of the public/private dichotomy.