Quotes About Public

Many worried that the public was increasingly confusing freedom with debauched egoism. "A new competitiveness was abroad in the land," Wood says, "and people seemed to be almost at war with one another."4 It was a season of "inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for," as the theologian William Ellery Channing described his times.5

Close examination of the evidence shows that the poor were being included in private education, and only those who did not want to go to school were missing out. There was no need for public school except as a tool to undermine the church's influence in education.

McKay made no secret of his passion for free agency, speaking frequently on the subject in public settings.

In popularizing a scientific development it was always crucial to sail the narrow strait between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public befuddlement.

In a fearful, eroding democracy, it remains to be seen whether art continues to be free to act in the public sphere or is driven underground once more. Too many solutions involve continuing sacrifice by artists bucking the system, who are rarely rewarded for their hard work.

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

These are days of special perplexity and depression, and the path of public duty is unusually rugged.

Such public shaming is rampant and sometimes appropriate, but unfortunately, in recent years, shaming has morphed into coordinated reputation murders, and anyone who is slightly insensitive or not PC enough can be led to a public character lynching without due process.

J'aime mieux me promener sur les quais, cette délicieuse bibliothèque publique.

The doctor's code is, 'First - do no harm.' The politician's code is, 'First - go on television.

We want to assure the public that this threat is contained." Only an elected official would dare to declare a thing safe and finished when he or she didn't even know yet what it was.

En México los políticos han sido, salvo contadas excepciones, una vergüenza pública: su preocupación más importante es obtener beneficios para sí mismos en detrimento del bien común. Lucran con las desgracias de su comunidad en pos de fortalecer o imponer su imagen para propósitos electorales. La

An accident which should have caused the death of only five hundred instead of five thousand persons, but on the same day and in public, as the outcome of an accident appealing strongly to the eye, by the fall, for instance, of the Eiffel Tower, would have produced, on the contrary, an immense impression on the imagination of the crowd.

La América Tropical stayed hidden from public view and history until the 1960s, by which time the elements washed enough white away so that ghostly outlines emerged. The mural is currently undergoing a restoration effort sponsored by a new generation of city fathers, its promise intimidating: you can hide the Mexican, but the Mexican will emerge.

Is there sorcery involved when you love me here, or when we first meet in a public place?

Naomi Klein among others has called the globalisation era 'crony capitalism', revealing itself not as a huge 'free market' but as a system in which politicians hand over public wealth to private players in exchange for political support.

Una mayoría abrumadora de mexicanos cree con fe de carbonero que la propiedad pública del petróleo o el monopolio gubernamental de la energía eléctrica son pilares de la integridad nacional, ejes de la nación y la nacionalidad. Es la convicción, por ejemplo, del gobierno electo el 1 de julio de 2018.

El discurso populista es por excelencia el del movimiento bueno contra el gobierno malo.

Los movimientos populistas se nutren del descrédito de los partidos políticos y de la ineficacia de los gobiernos. Diría más: del descrédito de la política y de los políticos.

Lo característico de los movimientos populistas es introducir nuevas clientelas al erario público. Por ello terminan con frecuencia en crisis fiscales que se llevan todo lo ganado.

populismo no está sólo en los políticos y en los gobiernos. Está en la sociedad.

Partidos y elecciones han sido ventanillas preferentes de asignación y captura de recursos públicos, pues en el México democrático sólo ellas dan acceso al poder y al dinero público suelto que este trae consigo.

La ilusión de que el dinero público puede pagar la democracia debe ser revisada radicalmente. La sociedad toda debe pagar por su democracia, no sólo el erario público.