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“The public good must come before private interests.”

— Bryant McGill

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally…

— Hans Haacke

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

— George Will

“Politics is a process which should slowly bring to public all the private worries and hopes of the individual.”

— Theodore H. White

“Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public”

— Robert Hughes

The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public…

— Noam Chomsky

Private sincerity is a public welfare.

— C. A. Bartol

“For Hegel , by contrast, liberal society is a reciprocal and equal agreement among citizens to mutually recognize each other”

— Francis Fukuyama

It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public…

— Charles Krauthammer

“This reduction of 'society' to a thin membrane of interactions between private individuals is presented today as the ambition of libertarians and free marketeers.…

— Tony Judt

“There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fair mindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why…

— Herman Melville

“People are complicated creatures, with a nuanced set of private and public incentives, and that our behavior is enormously influenced by circumstances.”

— Steven D. Levitt