P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.”
“Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.”
“Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people to see the art long after it has disappeared.”
“Public attitudes follow real life experience, and as marriage equality has spread to more communities, Americans have seen more freedom, stronger families, more protection for children and more fairness.”
“Public awareness is the equinox of tyranny’s rise; once one man learns of another’s captivity, he will act to free him. It is the best and most certain part of man’s nature.”
Source: Blythe
“Public behavior is merely private character writ large.”
“Public behavior is nurtured in private; earthshaking measures come form careful steps.”
“Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt.”
“Public Broadcasting is a sandbox for the rich. The NEA and the HEH are simply enclaves of the left using your money to propagandize your children against your values.”
“Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.”
“Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.”
“Public calamity is a mighty leveller.”
Source: The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke
“Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need. We can never end hunger only through the wonderful work of local charities. Like other Western democracies, we must end our national problem of hunger through national and political leadership. Charity is nice for some things, but not as a way to feed a nation. We don't protect our national security through charity, and we shouldn't protect our families and children that way either.”
“Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority.”
“Public commentary absolutely influences my work.”
“Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.”
“Public control of the political process requires public financing. The restoration of our American Democracy depends upon public financing.”
“Public credit is suspicion asleep.”
Source: The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance
“Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.”
“Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.”
“Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country.”
“Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say.”
Source: Desperate Women Need to Talk to You
“Public disclosure of campaign contributions and spending should be expedited so voters can judge for themselves what is appropriate.”
“Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.”
“Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.”
Source: The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue
“Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.”
“public display and operatic suffering—an in-your-face owning of one’s vulnerability and fucked-upness to the point of embarrassing and offending tight-asses is a powerful feminist strategy. Writing is tough work, I don’t see how anyone can really write from a position of weakness. Sometimes I may start out in that position, but the act of commandeering words flips me into a position of power.”
Source: The Buddhist
“Public displays of inappropriate behavior are a favorite hobby of mine, a cheap thrill.”
Source: We Were One Once
“Public education does not serve a public. It creates a public. And in creating the right kind of public, the schools contribute toward strengthening the spiritual basis of the American Creed. That is how Jefferson understood it, how Horace Mann understood it, how John Dewey understood it, and in fact, there is no other way to understand it. The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create? A conglomerate of self-indulgent consumers? Angry, soulless, directionless masses? Indifferent, confused citizens? Or a public imbued with confidence, a sense of purpose, a respect for learning, and tolerance? The answer to this question has nothing whatever to do with computers, with testing, with teacher accountability, with class size, and with the other details of managing schools. The right answer depends on two things, and two things alone: the existence of shared narratives and the capacity of such narratives to provide an inspired reason for schooling.”
Source: The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
“Public education for some time has been heavily focused on what curricula we believe will be helpful to students. Life-Enriching Education is based on the premise that the relationship between teachers and students, the relationships of students with one another, and the relationships of students to what they are learning are equally important in preparing students for the future.”
Source: Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships
“Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.”
“Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.”
“Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.”
“Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without classes. To do so will require the efforts of us all-teachers, administrators, taxpayers and statesmen. Education is a social process, perhaps the most important process in determining the future of our country; it should command a far larger portion of our national income than it does today.”
“Public education is an investment in our future.”
“Public education is not broken. It is not failing or declining. The diagnosis is wrong, and the solutions of the corporate reformers are wrong. Our urban schools are in trouble because of concentrated poverty and racial segregation. But public education is not ‘broken.’ Public education is in a crisis only so far as society is and only so far as this new narrative of crisis has destabilized it.”
Source: Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
“Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.”
“Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds and circumstances with the education and skills necessary to become knowledge workers. If we don't, we run the risk of creating an even larger gap between the middle class and the poor. This gap threatens our democracy, our society and the economic future of America.”
“Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.”
“Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.”
Source: Among School Children
“Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.”
“Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods”
Source: History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes
“Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.”
Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson
“Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.”
“Public Enemy started out as a benchmark in rap music in the mid-1980s. We felt there was a need to actually progress the music and say something because we were slightly older than the demographic of rap artists at the time. It was a time of heightened rightwing politics, so the climate dictated the direction of the group.”
“Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is the straight-up peak of hip-hop. Straight-up one of the most powerful records ever made, period, in music.”
“Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.”
“Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.”
“Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.”