So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.
There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to confuse 'civic' and 'civil,' and they believe that everything that is done by citizens is necessarily a good thing because you build a network, an association.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.
The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.
Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
All human beings are intrinsically valuable, and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong.
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.