Quotes About Public

I readily discovered the prodigious influence that this primary fact exercises on the whole course of society; it gives a peculiar direction to public opinion and a peculiar tenor to the laws; it imparts new maxims to the governing authorities and peculiar habits to the governed.

At periods of equality men have no faith in one another, by reason of their common resemblance; but this very resemblance gives them almost unbounded confidence in the judgment of the public; for it would not seem probable, as they are all endowed with equal means of judging, but that the greater truth should go with the greater number.

In general, democracy gives largely to the community, and very sparingly to those who govern it. The reverse is the case in aristocratic countries, where the money of the State is expended to the profit of the persons who are at the head of affairs.

The first, and in a way the only, necessary condition for arriving at centralizing public power in a democratic society is to love equality

I'm just a civil servant. We take the taxpayer's money and try not to do any work at all.

Many people do not even know the difference between Medicaid and Medicare and simply consider them entitlement program, as if tax breaks and corporate subsidies aren't entitlements by another name.

Perhaps I identify too well with my father's illicit awe. A trace of this seems caught in the photo, just as a trace of Roy has been caught on the light-sensitive paper...It's a curiously ineffectual attempt at censorship. Why cross out the year and not the month? Why, for that matter, leave the photo in the envelope at all? In an act of prestidigitation typical of the way my father juggled his public appearance and private reality, the evidence is simultaneously hidden and revealed.

In my view, sire, anyone who actively campaigns for public office disqualifies himself for holding any office at all!

Many test subjects at the dawn of the Atomic Age and throughout the decades that followed, as the public would come to learn, were children. Some were only days old; some were cognitively and physically impaired.

POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it...

AMATEUR, n. A public nuisance who mistakes taste for skill, and confounds his ambition with his ability.

The people far prefer a leader who appears great, to one who is.

The people far prefer a leader who appears great, Bialoveld wrote, to one who is.

Your brand is owned by your customers and anyone else who has an impression of your company. Your brand resides in the minds of your customers, not in your newspaper ads.

For years, people defined branding as the process of creating an ad campaign or marketing program that conveyed a desirable image to the public. That's fine as far as it goes and these efforts can certainly help the brand. But they don't amount to much when compared to the power of how people actually experience your company. That's your brand.

Rumors would later abound in the black community that Gates and the LAPD had simply let the initial rioting explode so that, as Bill Parker had suggested twenty-seven years earlier, the white public would later get out and "support a strong police department.

The author is unworthy of His own characters. The devil is first a literary critic, who delivers this untalented scribbler the public flaying He deserves.

A politician is a person who thinks twice before he says nothing.

The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born, and doesn't stop until you get up to speak in public.

Foundations are dandy things, but the truth is few institutions are as complacent and potentially unaccountable to the real world as private foundations. When I was a public official, my dealings with philanthropy often left me with the question—who do they think they are?

How can we live to God in public when we so seldom meet Him in private?

Populist politics only appeals to intuitive logic, because that which is intuitive can be comprehended by the masses.

No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.