Quotes About Public

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.

former estate that is now a public park sporting Florence's biggest

So much of the news was invented for propaganda.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

The unfortunate thing about public misfortunes is that everyone regards himself as qualified to talk about them.

The mob asks to be overwhelmed by invective, by threats and revelations, by shattering pronouncements: the mob loves a shouter.

But much argument is not required to guide the public, still less a formal exposition of that argument. What is mostly needed is the manly utterance of clear conclusions; if a statesman gives these in a felicitous way (and if with a few light and humorous illustrations, so much the better), he has done his part.

Public opinion is the test of this polity; the best opinion which with its existing habits of deference, the nation will accept: if the free government goes by that opinion, it is a good government of its species; if it contravenes that opinion, it is a bad one.

The newspapers only repeat the side their purchasers like: the favourable arguments are set out, elaborated, illustrated; the adverse arguments maimed, misstated, confused.

The sort of taxation tried in America, that of taxing everything, and seeing what every thing would yield, could not have been tried under a Government delicately and quickly sensitive to public opinion.

And so the permanent public servant will be teased by the wits, oppressed by the bores, and massacred by the innovators of Parliament.

Mi-e scârb? s?-mi prostituez propriile mele emo?ii în public ?i nimic din ceea ce mi se întâmpl? nu va fi cunoscut vreodat?.

A man whose business it is to cook for all comers can have no political opinions.

With the whole supermodel thing, even when you're not really modeling anymore people still call me that. And I'm like "...retired."

Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people'--affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.

People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.

Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

has the American presidency become the most impossible job in the world?

was promising to be a white-out Christmas with all the overheated warnings from the television news about "sheltering in place" and whatever other nonsense phrases they were using to convey to the public that it was going to snow quite a bit overnight.

There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.

Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.