Quotes About Public

Policy calmly formulated in public-school accents behind closed doors can manifest itself in very raucous and savage proceedings when translated into action.

What Lippmann took from the war—as he explained in his 1922 classic Public Opinion—was the gap between the true complexity of the world and the narratives the public uses to understand it—the rough "stereotypes" (a word he coined in his book). When it came to the war, he believed that the "consent" of the governed had been, in his phrase, "manufactured.

If we believe in liberty, it must be freedom from both private and public coercion.

No one was ever charged with a lawless execution witnessed by thousands of Hoosiers in the public square.

Anger is often what pain looks like when it shows itself in public.

Most breakthroughs in performance (and appearance) enhancement start with animals and go through the following adoption curve: Racehorses ? AIDS patients (because of muscle wasting) and bodybuilders ? elite athletes ? rich people ? the rest of us The last jump from the rich to the general public can take 10–20 years, if it happens at all. It often doesn't. I

Si intentas predecir lo que interesará [al público] y haces contorsiones para adaptarte a esas expectativas

What the great political thinker Hannah Arendt meant by totalitarianism was not an all-powerful state, but the erasure of the difference between private and public life. We are free only insofar as we exercise control over what people know about us, and in what circumstances they come to know it.

He places the sign in his window so that he can withdraw into daily life without trouble from the authorities. When everyone else follows the same logic, the public sphere is covered with signs of loyalty, and resistance becomes unthinkable.

If you carry a weapon in public service, may God bless you and keep you.

Totalitarianism removes the difference between private and public not just to make individuals unfree, but also to draw the whole society away from normal politics and toward conspiracy theories. Rather than defining facts or generating interpretations, we are seduced by the notion of hidden realities and dark

Since in the age of the internet we are all publishers, each of us bears some private responsibility for the public's sense of truth.

The choice to be in public depends on the ability to maintain a private sphere of life. We are free only when it is we ourselves who draw the line between when we are seen and when we are not seen.

When everyone else follows the same logic, the public sphere is covered with signs of loyalty, and resistance becomes unthinkable.

In my fifty years of public life, I have never seen a man [Ronald Reagan] more popular with the American people

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

Because of their rejection of the public law, cynical subjects feel as if they have no investment in the big Other, as if they have distanced themselves from its power, but this is belied by their investment in the fantasmatic underside of that law.

change, those in love care much less about how others outside of the beloved see them. They are willing to act strangely in public or draw attention to themselves in embarrassing ways because the only recognition that counts is that bestowed by the beloved.

By giving priority to the state, Hegel claims that we are public individuals before we are private ones. Our investment in the public sphere is not an option - like the decision to vote or not - but the basis for our private existence. The priority of the state indicates that one must go through the detour of the public in order to be a private individual.

A little mathematical paradox that no tyrant has ever solved: I have three enemies. I have them all brutally and publicly executed. Now have many enemies have I got? The correct answer is usually in the region of 'seventy-nine'." –

You can never overestimate the intelligence of the American public.

Among journalists, there is a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads.' This can result in some serious hustling - and some serious sloppiness - whenever a crime occurs. The public's longing to see and hear salacious details is, basically, endless.

I've gotten used to being Frank Ocean.

I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story.