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Quotes About Public

Anything that is public display that will cause disruption to the beliefs of society of course would have to be curtailed.
~ Anwar Ibrahim
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.
~ Edward Hirsch
Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.
~ Joseph Stalin
In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes. From one's own self, no.
~ Karl Hess
I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.
~ Andrew Eldritch
In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims.
~ Samuel Alito
There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.
~ David Cameron
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
~ Christopher Lasch
A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
~ Charles Dickens
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
~ Oscar Wilde
Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.
~ Jacob K. Javits
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.
~ Stockwell Day
The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
~ Felix Adler
Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.
~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
~ Jeff Bridges
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
~ Ben Carson
Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.
~ William Rounseville Alger
Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.
~ Mahatma Gandhi