Quotes About Public

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.

The USA legal system is designed to enrich lawyers, protect the government and corporations, and shaft the general public.

Not upholding a persons legal rights is a form of abuse. Unfortunately, USA government abuse of the general public is a normal state of affairs in many areas.

Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.

Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn't mean he's like that in real life.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

The concern in polling is to present the issue in the way it is likely to emerge in a campaign so the candidate has reasonably accurate information about how the public feels about the issue. The difficulty is that it is often not clear how an issue will emerge.

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.

The Social Security Act—the name of the ACT is FICA, the Federal Insurance Contributions Act. Well, it was sold to the public as an earned right. Work, you pay an insurance premium, but you are not paying an insurance premium at all. You're paying a tax, pure and simple. That's what Social Security is. It's a tax we pay so that people who are no longer able to work will be taken care of.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that can not only make it safe for public consumption, not a powerful vehicle through which to address the public imagination.

And I was bitter. Bitterness and I were old friends by now, but at the moment bitterness was trying to go down my bra in public.

It is a crime to mislead public opinion, to utilize for a deadly task this opinion which has been perverted until it becomes delirious.

N'était-ce pas stupide de croire à l'intelligence du public ?

The courtesans, as Vandeuvres used to say, avenged public morality by emptying his moneybags.

PUBLIC IS URGED TO STAY OUT OF PUBLIC PLACES SUCH AS CAFÉS, THEATRES, CINEMAS, AND PUBLIC HOUSES. SEE ONLY THOSE PERSONS ONE NEEDS TO SEE. REFRAIN FROM SHAKING HANDS, LAUGHING, OR CHATTING CLOSELY TOGETHER. IF ONE MUST KISS, DO SO THROUGH A HANDKERCHIEF. SPRINKLE SULPHUR IN THE SHOES. IF IN DOUBT, DON'T STIR OUT.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

If you decide to do something, don't shrink from being seen doing it, even if the majority of people disapprove. If you're wrong to do it, then you should shrink from doing it altogether; but if you're right, then why worry how people will judge you?

Our government," Lincoln declared, "rests on public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government." The task of Republicans was to counteract Democrats' "gradual and steady debauching of public opinion" until it no longer valued the central ideal of equality.52 Like the abolitionists, Lincoln saw public sentiment as the terrain on which the crusade against slavery was to be waged.

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.     44

modern infrastructure—for reliable power, clean water, fast transit, affordable food, and resilient structures—has done more to improve public health than any other modern intervention, including scientific medicine

Public life for Georgian gentlemen invariably assumed the taking of office, but there was no formal place for their wives in the machinery of local government. However, this rough division between private and public could be applied to almost any century or any culture–a fact which robs the distinction of its analytical purchase. 19