Quotes About Public

I was much inclined to abolish for ever the practice of allowing the people corn at the public expense, because they trust so much to it, that they are too lazy to till their lands; but I did not persevere in my design, as I felt sure that the practice would some time or other be revived by some one ambitious of popular favour.

It was an odd habit, I thought, this insistence on driving a car in cities with public transportation.

John Barleycorn's final words: "I've had more friends in private and more foes in public than any other man in America.

A writer who acts as public conscience needs extraordinary nerve and fine instincts, like a boxer. After a time, these instincts inevitably falter. He also needs to be emotionally tough. Camus was not that tough, not tough in the way that Sartre is.

Space reserved for being serious is hard to come by in a modern society, whose chief model of a public space is the mega-store (which may also be an airport or a museum).

The war went from bad to worse and the Government was universally detested. As each fresh catastrophe came to the public's notice some small share of blame might attach itself to this or that person, but in general everyone united in blaming the Ministers, and they, poor things, had no one to blame but each other – which they did more and more frequently.

and Bill Clinton broke with this archetype to devote their post-presidencies to humanitarian and other public causes. Previously, William Howard Taft, president

In evil times, when public virtue has left the earth, ancient writings are of little account, and no one cares to disturb the silence of the libraries.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost--he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

I caught sight of Fraser in a pair of tight black Speedos. Ugh. Did he have a permit to carry that thing in public?

He had one of those British public school accents that make insignificant comments like Would you pass the butter sound as interesting as Fire when ready!

Assault weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons --anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun-- can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.

Handguns are a public-health problem.

May we all be judged by strangers!

Forget the fictional characters – how many authors are being stopped on the street?

Asked by an audience member at a public meeting whether he agreed with Hitler, Labour MP Rhys John Davies answered that he hated Hitler – as did the German people. He went on to argue that this would be the last war Britain would ever fight as a great power. In future, he claimed, 'we should be a sort of vassal state of America.

That was the problem with public art, it risked great ridicule.

A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.

The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.

La opinión pública, pensó Mallarino. La caída en desgracia. ¿De dónde saldrían esas fórmulas? ¿Quién las habría inventado, quién habría sido el primero en usarlas?

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

In refusing to hide or be silenced, in insisting that rape is a public matter, and in demanding social change, survivors create their own living monument.

writing pad that bears the logo of public accommodations.