Quotes About Public

It often happens, with regard to new inventions, that one part of the general public finds them useless and another part considers them to be impossible. When it becomes clear that the possibility and the usefulness can no longer be denied, most agree that the thing was fairly easy to discover and that they knew it was significant. —Abraham Edelcrantz, Treatise on Telegraphs (1796)

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

Happiness is a private good, justice a public good.

Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.

Je sentis inconsciemment que tu mènes une double vie, une vie dont une face claire est franchement tournée vers le monde, tandis que l'autre, plongée dans l'ombre, n'est connue que de toi seul. Cette profonde dualité, le secret de ton existence

before it became apparent how thin though highly valuable a layer of liberalism had been. With it conciliation disappeared from public political life, interests hit hard against interests, and the struggle began.

In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Popularity has a bright side, it unlocks many doors. But the truth is that I don't like it very much because it changes the private life into a very small thing.

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

The public is gullible. ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and it becomes a truth.

Public faith means going public with what's in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

Truth, like climate, is common property.

Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put down 'actor.'

In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an associate director

Truth triumphs, even if there be no public support.