Quotes of: Public-good Keyword

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.

Paul Farmer

Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legislation that creates a 'public lending right', where the government recognises that enabling hundreds of people to read a single copy of a book provides ...

Peter Singer

You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.

Dev Anand

The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.

Eric Schlosser

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

Patti Smith

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

Rachel Johnson

When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.

Trey Gowdy

One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and pea...

Anna Lindh

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

David Duchovny

I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.

Gary Cohn

You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by , , &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject it, and prove in my opinion that it is premature, insufficient and false. These latter are joined by the Brit...

Writings: Autobiography/Notes on the State of Virginia/Public & Private Papers/Addresses/Letters

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Joseph Pulitzer

[I]f the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to exe...

Noah Webster

To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel.

David Alan Grier

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

Janice Dickinson

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

Jaime Lerner

The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.

Mariella Frostrup

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

Rutherford B. Hayes

There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to confuse 'civic' and 'civil,' and they believe that everything that is done by citizens is necessarily a good thing because you...

Evgeny Morozov

My appearance on 'Public School' garnered a smattering of fan mail from girls, which was good, and letters from mothers saying I was the sort of boy they'd like their daughters to go out with - which was not quite as good.

James Lovegrove

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business