It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Minister: Public opinion has a way of changing.
The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.
I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.
Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.
Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.
It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.
Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.
Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.
I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.
I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.
I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.
