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The Public Interest
«Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.»
Author: Adam Smith
| Keywords:
directing, domestic, intends, intention, invisible hand, preferring, promote, promoting, public interest, The Public Interest
«Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
judgments, private interest, The Public Interest
«Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.»
Author: Donald Rumsfeld
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challenging, Interesting Times, in public, public service, The Public Interest
«In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
| Keywords:
bench, not able, public interest, satisfactorily, The Exceptions, The Public Interest
«The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
individuals, Individual right, individual rights, interest, interests, precedence, private, private interest, public, public interest, rights, supersede, superseded, supersedes, The Public Interest
«They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
demanded, enormity, flagrant, grasped, happening, happenings, interested, in public, notice, sufficiently, The Public Interest, violations
«I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Ambition,
Jealousy
| Keywords:
avarice, engaged, in public, Public affairs, The Public Interest
«No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
accumulation, accumulations, interests, massed, nobler, private, private interest, public interest, The Public Interest
«The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
English, immoral, interest, in question, Mass, massed, public, public works, the English, The Public Interest, told, work in, work of art
«The government is neither a monolith nor simply the public interest personified.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Economics,
Government
| Keywords:
monolith, personified, personify, public interest, The Public Interest