Scandal Series Best Quotes

As neoliberalism wages war on public goods and the very idea of a public, including citizenship beyond membership, it dramatically thins public life without killing politics. Struggles remain over power, hegemonic values, resources, and future trajectories. This persistence of politics amid the destruction of public life and especially educated public life, combined with the marketization of the political sphere, is part of what makes contemporary politics peculiarly unappealing and toxic— full of ranting and posturing, emptied of intellectual seriousness, pandering to an uneducated and manipulable electorate and a celebrity-and-scandal-hungry corporate media. Neoliberalism generates a condition of politics absent democratic institutions that would support a democratic public and all that such a public represents at its best: informed passion, respectful deliberation, aspirational sovereignty, sharp containment of powers that would overrule or undermine it.

I have decided to enter the arena, sacrifice my well being, and bravely do what is best for our country. I have decided to enter politics.” Peter looked around the room, expecting cheers and receiving instead a series of blank expressions, including from Cynthia. Jazmine cleared her throat, and was first to break the silence. “I think everyone is as astounded as I am. You see, Peter, we don’t really understand why you say that this will directly affect us.” “Isn’t it obvious?” “Actually, no. Would you care to explain?” asked a baffled Victoria. Peter never ceased to astound her, and it never was in a good way. “Very well. You see, it is quite simple. Since you are my girlfriend’s family, and since maybe someday Cynthia will become more than just my girlfriend, I need to know right now if there are any family secrets, scandals, or other information that I should be aware of right away so as to determine the best way to prevent the scandal from emerging. Any secret children? Secret lovers? Secret murder? Any link with a dictatorship?

First staged at the Drury Lane Theatre on 8 May 1777, The School for Scandal received an enthusiastic welcome from audiences, though it only initially ran for twenty performances in its first season. However, it returned the following season for more than forty performances and by the end of the eighteenth century it had been staged more than two hundred times. The play was well received by critics, as they celebrated the wit and morals of the work. The essayist and critic, William Hazlitt, was effusive in his praise, describing it ‘the most finished and faultless comedy we have’ and stating that, ‘It professes a faith in the natural goodness as well as habitual depravity of human nature’. Similarly impressed was the late nineteenth century poet and critic, Edmund Gosse, who commented in A History of Eighteenth Century Literature that it was ‘perhaps the best existing English comedy of intrigue’.