Herzog Quote by Saul Bellow

Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private.

— George Will

We wanted to draw a line between public life and private life.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

“A society notorious for effacing the boundary which once separated the private from the public, for making it a public virtue and obligation to…

— Zygmunt Bauman

“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

“The private realm of the household was the sphere where the necessities of life, of individual survival as well as of continuity of the…

— Hannah Arendt

“Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, any claimed or implied conflict of…

— Ayn Rand

“The space between the private and the public is the nexus of the personal and the social, if not political. It’s where we meet…

— John Capecci and Timothy Cage

“Only the existence of a public realm and the world’s subsequent transformation into a community of things which gathers men together and relates them…

— Hannah Arendt

“As many have noted, modern capitalism promises experiential satisfaction through consumption at the same time as it systematically deprives consumers of the stability, knowledge,…

— Simon During

Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.

— Marshall McLuhan

Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we…

— Emile M. Cioran

Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male…

— Andrea Dworkin