Quotes of: Public-life Keyword

58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

Cindy Sheehan

In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.

Dennis Cardoza

Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.

Ernest Istook

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

James Madison

My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time of graduation I was still a 'believer' in orthodox religion, but had strong questions which were encouraged at Harvard. In...

The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century

Many such an official, upon winning a foothold in City Hall, thinks only of his own cohorts, and his own gain. So it is not surprising that public affairs grow stagnant. Truly, cannot fathom such minds! I can think of nothing so satisfying as doing p...

Gadsby

Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even a hint that learning is hierarchical, that it is an edifice constructed on a foundation. The learner must be allowed to ent...

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

To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning. It means to uncover lies, confusions, and overgeneralizations, to detect abuses of logic and common sense...

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

Oh, he shouldn't be surprised, he's a Marxist and has nothing but contempt for the bourgeois capitalist press, yet paradoxically he is also somehow an Americanist and a believer in Science and Freedom and History and Reason, and it dismays him to see...

The Public Burning

Although stigmatizing attitudes are not limited to mental illness, the public seems to disapprove persons with psychiatric disabilities significantly more than persons with related conditions such as physical illness (34-36). Severe mental illness ha...

Patrick W. Corrigan

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the m...

Alexander Fraser Tytler

The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii)

a commentary on Jonah

The unification of worlds is an author's priority, as one of them surely resides forbidden to the public.

Despondency: The Story of a Defeated Man

...in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.

Don Quixote

The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what it means.

Eruption to Hope

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

Fahrenheit 451

Let's get proof before a public hanging and not after it.

Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying

Which isn’t, like, as bad as it sounds, because the general public kind of sucks ass.

Bite Me

The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.

Burr

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

Edmund Barton

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

Mitch Daniels