You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line. — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Do not suffer your good nature [...] to say yes when you ought to say no; remember that it is a public… — George Washington 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 think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge… — Ralph Thomas Walker Copy Share Image
My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in… — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
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
I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey,… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
Industry is far more efficient than the university in making use of scientific developments for the public good. Reported in 1981, as… — Herbert Boyer 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
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being... Almighty God would mercifully… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“Is there such a thing as public good? That's all I'm asking. I mean, is your good the same as my good?… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
“In our opinion, there is no public good other than one that assures the citizens' private good; we judge institutions from the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate… — James K. Polk 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
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
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
There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The United States is an outlier in the size and scope of its loan infrastructure; in many peer countries, higher education is… — Annie Lowrey 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
Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Government is the reimplementation of the public good. - George McGovern ( On Charlie Rose, Jan 6, 2011 telecast Charlotte NC) — George McGovern Copy Share Image
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