Top 1200 Public Discourse Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

Happy family: The existence and maintenance of [this] is thought to make a politician fit for public office. According to this theory, the public are less concerned by whether or not they are effectively represented than by the need to be assured that the penises and vaginas of public officials are only used in legally sanctioned circumstances.

Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction between the harm caused by external causes out of the individual's control and that caused by oneself. Lifestyle risk discourse overturns the notion that health hazards in postindustrial society are out of the individual's control. On the contrary, the dominant theme of lifestyle risk discourse is the responsibility of the individual to avoid health risks for the sake of his or her own health as well as the greater good of society.

You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.

Public blockchains are almost like the public Internet, which is open and widely accessible. If you can get on the Internet, you will likely be able to get on a public blockchain via a specific application.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

I won't criticise anyone else's statements, and the public will make up their own minds. And if the public think that any side or any individual has strayed too far away from what's expected of public representatives, then they'll make that judgement.

In a mass television democracy - which all of us nowadays have - it is impossible to take basic political decisions with long-term consequences without the public knowing it, without the public understanding at least some of it, without the public forming its judgment, heterogeneous as it may be.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

You have celebrities who are pushed to the brink of a public meltdown, and so the public thinks that every person in the public eye has dirty secrets that they're keeping, or isn't what they seem, or is masking it and faking sincerity, faking authenticity, faking being surprised at award shows when you win a Grammy.

If you have a society where a large section believe they are not part of the political discourse, that is a situation for trouble.

A vital democracy requires an informed electorate, civil discourse, and bold thinking.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

If you want to create a high-society, you must give high things to the public! Show the public eagle; public will be an eagle! Show the public a rat, public will be a rat! Whatever you give to the public, public will take that! To create a high-society, you must give high things to the public!

The public has every right to see Robert S. Mueller III's conclusions. Absolutely nothing in the law or the regulations prevents the report from becoming public. Indeed, the relevant sources of law give Attorney General P. William Barr all the latitude in the world to make it public.

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

The level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained.

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

The debate corporation is a corporation. It's funded by corporations. It's relayed by media corporations to the public. It's created by the two parties, which are corporations. We should have public presidential debates all over America run by public institutions.

The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available.

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater. What do we worry about? We worry about our schools. We worry about our public recreational facilities. We worry about our law enforcement and our public housing. All of the things that bear upon our standard of living are in the public sector.

It's a classic error in American discourse: the conflation of race with culture.

I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.

We've had public hearings. We've had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to provide to the public. We have brought the public along with us, trying to make as much available as possible over time.

If you just believe in our democracy, and you want an informed electorate, public schools are in your interest, and I think our country is dependent on public schools, whether or not you personally have a kid in the public school system.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.

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.

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not to the public view of itself.

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

The Constitution forbids states from banning all religion from public spaces and from making churches the ghettos of religion where all manifestations of faith are kept separate from public life. Religious people have an equal right to participate in the public square and to have their contributions to Oklahoma history and society recognized.

It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

As Members of Congress, we have a duty to elevate the discourse and unify during times of crisis.

With sociolinguistics, after covering the basics of the field, I focused on discourse analysis.

I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

I think we do have a better understanding now of how moral thought and discourse function.