Public Discussion Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

• Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. — Lord Acton
• Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties . . .… — Louis D. Brandeis
• A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their lives. By associating… — Kevin Mattson
• Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants? — Robert Solow
• It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to oppose birth control,… — Susan Jacoby
• The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate it from superstition,… — Dave Rodgers
• Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion. — Herman Kahn
• Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion. — Herman Kahn
• Fortunately, both governments have been in favor of studying the Mexican migration problem in greater depth. For the first time, I think, we will have… — Ernesto Zedillo
• The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained… — Theodore White
• Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are… — H. L. Mencken
• Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare… — Laura Ingraham
• The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of… — H. L. Mencken
• Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or… — James A. Baldwin
• REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed. — Ambrose Bierce
• It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching… — Jordan Sonnenblick
• We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of public discussion in the… — Jonathan Safran Foer
• Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists… — Paul Berg
• Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these… — Ed Rendell

Who Wrote These Public Discussion Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 19 Public Discussion Quotes as follows:

• 2 Public Discussion Quotes by H. L. Mencken
• 2 Public Discussion Quotes by Herman Kahn
• 1 Public Discussion Quote by Ernesto Zedillo
• 1 Public Discussion Quote by Theodore White
• 1 Public Discussion Quote by Laura Ingraham
• 1 Public Discussion Quote by James A. Baldwin
• 1 Public Discussion Quote by Ambrose Bierce
• 1 Public Discussion Quote by Jordan Sonnenblick
• 1 Public Discussion Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer
• 1 Public Discussion Quote by Paul Berg
• 1 Public Discussion Quote by Ed Rendell
• 1 Public Discussion Quote by Lord Acton
• 1 Public Discussion Quote by Louis D. Brandeis
• 1 Public Discussion Quote by Kevin Mattson
• 1 Public Discussion Quote by Robert Solow
• 1 Public Discussion Quote by Susan Jacoby
• 1 Public Discussion Quote by Dave Rodgers