Quotes About Public

You have heard me speak of Professor Moriarty?" "The famous scientific criminal, as famous among crooks as– –" "My blushes, Watson!" Holmes murmured in a deprecating voice. "I was about to say, as he is unknown to the public." "A touch! A distinct touch!" cried Holmes. "You are developing a certain unexpected vein of pawky humour, Watson, against which I must learn to guard myself.

Because my brother Mycroft possesses it in a larger degree than I do." This was news to me indeed. If there were another man with such singular powers in England, how was it that neither police nor public had heard of him?

Am I the public conscience? Expected always to say in cold words what the rest of them are too arrogant to recognise?

I don't like the fact that running for public office has become a personality contest. - Adam Warner

there was also a celebrated official sculptor whose works disfigured the whole of Paris

In our opinion, there is no public good other than one that assures the citizens' private good; we judge institutions from the point of view of the concrete opportunities they give to individuals.

We pretend that our present system is democratic, yet the people never have the chance nor the means to express their views on any problem of public life. Any issue that does not pertain to particular interests is abandoned to collective passions, which are systematically and officially inflamed.

If one were to entrust the organisation of public life to the devil, he could not invent a more clever device.

Of these three sorts of lies – lying to the party, lying to the public, lying to oneself – the first is by far the least evil. Yet if belonging to a party compels one to lie all the time, in every instance, then the very existence of political parties is absolutely and unconditionally an evil.

Have you no sense? Poor misguided men, such shouting—why this public outburst? Aren't you ashamed, with the land so sick, to stir up private quarrels?

One must see it close up, the callousness with which otherwise kind people act in the capacity of the public because their participation or non-participation seems to them a trifle - a trifle that with the contributions of the many becomes the monster.

Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star.

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

I get recognised sometimes. But I just live my life. I get on the bus, I get on the subway, it's not a problem.

I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.