P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.”
“Public financing would fix campaign donor problems.”
“Public geniuses who are able to stir the multitudes into action are great speakers, but not good listeners and that suits them well.”
“Public grazing provides just one dollar out of every $2,500 of taxable income in the West, or 0.04 percent, and just one out of everything 1,400 jobs, or 0.07 percent. On both public and private lands in the eleven Western states, the livestock industry accounts for less than 0.5 percent of all income.”
Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
“Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.”
“Public health is purchasable. Within a few natural and important limitations any community can determine its own health.”
“Public health regulations are often controversial at the time but who would want to go back to the days of sitting in smoke-filled restaurants or cars without seatbelts?”
“Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.”
Source: Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids
“Public homage was like a humiliation. The author was caught in a psychologically damaging confusion between his social being, reduced to only a face and a body, subject to gawking and applause, and his moral being.”
Source: The Invention of Celebrity
“Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.”
“Public housing must not always represent the barest minimum of design consideration. Ask where the architect, contractor, administrator and legislator live? It will not be in public housing. Ask them if they would want to live in the complex they just created? The truthful answer will be “no way”. Until what is built is desirable and available to everyone, the future of of public housing will remain a marginal investment at best and an environmental crime at worst.”
Source: Indianapolis Architecture
“Public housing projects as well as private landlords are free to deny housing to people with criminal records. In fact, you don't even have to be convicted. You can be denied housing - or your family evicted - just based on an arrest.”
“Public humiliation and verbal abuse have lasting effects on students' self-esteem and mental well-being, undermining the very foundation of a supportive learning environment”
“Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.”
“Public influence is the real government of the world.”
Source: The Practical Anarchist: Writings of Josiah Warren
“Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated.”
Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
“Public instruction should be the first object of government.”
“Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a contribution to public space, and they stick their necks out to do it.”
“Public interest criteria does not mean criteria that the public decides are in its interest. It means that the elite - via various appointed bodies - decide what the public's interest is for them.”
Source: America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
“Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.”
“Public Interest is a term used by every politician to support his ideas.”
“Public interest is Gods interests and it is sacred”
“Public intervention into private businesses during crises blurs and changes the traditional boundaries between the private spheres of business and the public sphere of government. These public actions during crisis alter norms and social expectations about government intervention in business.”
Source: The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change
“Public is a good expert on making bad mistakes!”
“Public lands seizure, conceived as a fell swoop of the sword, will likely never come to pass. The law bars it, precedent bars it, and the Supreme Court has spoken to this effect repeatedly. FLPMA, unless amended by Congress, establishes that the land shall remain in the hands of all citizens in perpetuity. I think the seizure will require more delicate schemes, slowly moving and imperceptibly violent. In Congress it starts with an amendment to an appropriations bill here and there. A rider or two or three to bills that otherwise must pass to maintain the budget. It’s easy to curtail the protection of seeming irrelevancies like grass, soil, water, air, and wildlife when the public is distracted with the question of whether the government will go on functioning.”
Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
“Public libraries are a public good.”
“Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none.”
“Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.”
“Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.”
Source: Lost Memory of Skin
“Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.”
“Public libraries have inspired many young leaders to greatness than all the national universities combined.”
“Public libraries have succumbed to the same pressures that have overwhelmed the basic cultural functions of museums and universities, aims that should remain what they were, not because the old ways are always better but because in this case they were the right ones: the sustaining of standards, the preservation of quality, the conservation of literacy's history, the education of the heart, eye and mind. Now libraries devote far too much of their restricted space, and their limited budget, to public amusement. It is a fact of philistine life that amusement is where the money is.”
“Public life in this country is too damn dominated by people who’d read more if only their lips didn’t get so tired.”
“Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.”
“Public life is debased because it's only the nice people who are worried about imposing their views on others.”
“Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.”
“Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence.... If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity! If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity... Let us all, therefore, very secretly be 'fifth columnists.'”
“Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us in line. Private lives are lived out in the presence of family, friends, and neighbors who must be considered and respected even though the rules and proscriptions are looser than what's allowed in public. But in our secret lives, inside our own heads, almost anything goes.”
“Public loyalty results in private leverage.”
“Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.”
Source: The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America
“Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.”
“Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.”
Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion
“Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.”
“Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.”
“Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.”
“Public office is a public trust.”
“Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.”
“Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
“Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.”
Source: Addresses, State Papers and Letters
“Public offices were not made for private convenience.”