Quotes of: Public-discourse Keyword

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Chinese

The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should not be cowed by exaggerated sensitivity to people's religious beliefs and fail to speak vigorously and pointedly when the devout put forth arguments manifestly contrary to all the acquired knowledge of ...

Atheism: A Reader

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

James Monroe

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

Jim Hightower

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

Franklin Knight Lane

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

Steven Squyres

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

Discourse on Method

Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.

Enchiridion and Selections from the Discourses

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

Seamus Heaney

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is poss...

Paul Farmer

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!

Diogenes Laërtius

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

Ellen Willis

Public speaking skills are an essential key to achieving career advancement and success.

How to Overcome the Fear of Public Speaking With Easy to Use Ideas, Tips and Strategies

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

Mortimer Zuckerman

Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It has no legal meaning, except when used to describe the separate, private, individual rights of a...

Lysander Spooner

American public policy is run on a myth.

Richard Lamm

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

Quintus Tullius Cicero

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Thomas Jefferson

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

God save me from fools with a little philosophy - no one is more difficult to reach.

The Discourses

The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse.

Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime