Quotes About Public

For scores of millions of Americans, Clinton's "caring" was more important than his lying.

Instead of revealing the will of the people, election results are often only a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions.

the general public enjoys reading any book, of any kind, that is being read by the public generally, through much that herd instinct for doing what everybody else is doing, which exalts sane women upon three-inch heels, and attaches buttons to the sleeves and coat-tails of presumably intelligent men.

Social order is not the result of the architectural order created by T squares and slide rules. Nor is social order brought about by such professionals as policemen, nightwatchmen, and public officials. Instead, says Jacobs, "the public peace—the sidewalk and street peace—of cities … is kept by an intricate, almost unconscious network of voluntary controls and standards among the people themselves, and enforced by the people themselves.

The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.

The only thing more dangerous than a politician who thinks about re-election, is a politician who doesn't think about re-election.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

Passion, rather than logic, often drove public discourse.

The evangelists therefore intend their readers to understand that Jesus' consciousness of divine sonship was a fundamental factor in his decision to move out into the public eye.

While not every drought or adverse climatic change resulted in the breakdown of public authority, many did.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

mistakes subject to so discerning and public a post?mortem as weather forecasters.

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations in a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants

The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

the working majority that actually makes current decisions, and not even to the whole of the living population, but to those who came before us, who provided our traditions and our physical patrimony as nations, and to those who will come after us, and who will inherit what we leave behind. Decisions in the environmental arena often touch on this broader sense of public responsibility, and we cannot afford to lose it among the numbers.

Living in the fifties America was in many ways like living in a public space that's suddenly emptied out, a theater after closing, or a classroom after school. The emptiness could feel liberating, but it could also make you feel blank and vaguely nostalgic.

Snobbery is just the public face of insecurity.

This is not a "guilty pleasure" of mine, simply because I don't believe in "guilty" pleasures. Snobbery is just the public face of insecurity.

The nerve of these folk! Because I am not at my place of business, but rather seemingly at leisure, they treat me as though I am some kind of public pump from which they can draw advice, like water, at will.

Faith doesn't grow or deepen when we cower in secrecy. Faith strengthens as we go public.

The power holder may be the person whose "private motives are displaced onto public objects and rationalized in terms of public interest

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other.