Quotes About Public

The burden shouldn't be on the artist to make things the public understands, nor should it be on the museum to show only things that are understandable.

Cuanto más depravado se vuelve un pueblo, más se indigna públicamente contra la inmoralidad.

Il bene pubblico è la legge suprema

A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever anyone at hand sets you right and unsettles you in an opinion, but this change of opinion should come only because you are persuaded that something is just or to the public advantage, not because it appears pleasant or increases your reputation.

but that a man may reduce and contract himself almost to the state of a private man, and yet for all that not to become the more base and remiss in those public matters and affairs, wherein power and authority is requisite.

Res publica res est populi A republic is the people's property

Epicurus however is a more troublesome opponent, because he is a combination of two different sorts of pleasure, and because besides himself and his friends there have been so many later champions of his theory, which somehow or other enlists the support of that least competent but most powerful adherent, the general public.

The genres, it is thought, have other designs on us. They want to entertain, as opposed to rubbing our noses in the daily grit produced by the daily grind. Unhappily for realistic novelists, the larger reading public likes being entertained.

But it will take a considerable amount of work. Women have been told for so long that they can achieve equality in the professional and public spheres. They will not welcome the…" I sought for a word. "The segregation." "It was always a cruelty to promise them equality," he said, "since by their nature they can never achieve it. We have already begun the merciful task of lowering their expectations.

Beheading a Queen had not alarmed the populace as much as appointing one Finance Minister would.

The contempt for what the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus called Bürokretinismus served further to undermine public confidence in their government.

Because she hated herself, she hated them all with the fury of the thwarted and humiliated love of sixteen. Only a little true tenderness had been mixed into her love. Mostly it had been compounded out of vanity and complacent confidence in her own charms. Now she had lost and, greater than her sense of loss, was the fear that she had made a public spectacle of herself.

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.

The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.

What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.

I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.

It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It's definitely a gift and for which I'm thankful.

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.

Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time