Quotes About Public

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism." [ Address to National Press Club in Washington DC , as quoted in Freedom and Union (April 1952)]

When morality is exiled from public life and isolated in the private spaces of the individual, to be enjoyed only at certain times in our day, how can we know with any certainty that shame and mercy are shared concepts? and how can we convince people not to commit evil in those realms of public life from which law enforcement is absent.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

As a physician, David had private recognition, but he craved public approval. Mrs. Roosevelt had public recognition, but she craved intimacy. Each satisfied the other's hunger for acceptance. It was a fair exchange.

Aborrezco profundamente los grandes ámbitos. Sentarme en esas confiterías inmensas que todavía persisten en Buenos Aires me produce una sensación de vértigo sumamente desagradable; un asco certero en la boca del estómago. En lugares como ésos uno se encuentra permanentemente expuesto, fatalmente a la vista de todos. Y eso es algo que sencillamente no tolero. Ocho años de análisis no han logrado quitarme esa inquietud y ese desasosiego.

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.

Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger--without even knowing it is happening to you--of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not the public view of itself.

It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.

Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not to the public view of itself.

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

They were not serving the public interest, but their immediate personal interest, and it was nothing to them what the ultimate effect of their course on the general prosperity might be, if but they increased their own hoard, for these goods were their own, and the more they sold and the more they got for them, the greater their gain. The more wasteful the people were, the more articles they did not want which they could be induced to buy, the better for these sellers.

The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable.

The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has change. -Public Relations (1952)