We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. — George Will Copy Share Image
Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and oppose… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The whole, 'Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good. — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as… — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I feel like we're stuck in the former mode of reacting because that's what gains traction in Washington. But I really believe… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good. — Virgil Copy Share Image
To the cheater, there is no such thing as honesty, and to Republicans the idea of serving the public good is counterfeit… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the current argument is "not having net neutrality will hurt innovation," and you can make that argument, but I would rather… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legislation that creates a 'public lending right', where… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The Internet, too, has strong attributes of a public good, and has undermined the “private good” attributes of old media. Internet service… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
