Contemporary-thinkers Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

The mischievous idea that all public needs should be satisfied by compulsory organization and that all the means that individuals are willing to devote…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

— Samuel Johnson

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools,…

— Robert Reich

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so…

— Walter Lippmann

In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.

— Bill Courtney

The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the…

— James Howard Kunstler

It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.

— Alexander Hamilton

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

— Paul Keating

“The question of transforming the public into the common thus raises at least three issues initially. The first is an abstract but fundamental principle…

— Michael Hardt

Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.

— Dale Murphy

An empowered public is the foundation for a stronger society, more effective government, and a more successful state.

— Robert Zoellick

High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.

— Woodrow Wilson