Collapse Quote by Henry Giroux

“Thus, we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited,…

— William J. Brennan

Problems become privatized and removed from larger social issues. This is one task, connecting the personal problems to larger social issues that progressive leftist…

— Henry Giroux

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

— Ambrose Bierce

Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

“One must begin in one’s own life the private solutions that can only in turn become public solutions.”

— Wendell Berry

Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange…

— Henry Giroux

The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation: how to limit the scope and…

— Milton Friedman

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

— Richard M. Nixon

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

— Don Marquis

Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are…

— Brian Barry

The privacy of public office, the publicity of private life

— Latin Proverb

We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski