Quotes About Public

Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

In this culture, there is no ego rewards for standing up in public and admitting vulnerability.

is a short step to licensed murder, especially when it is for so-called public benefit.

The Goths didn't destroy Rome, nor did they massacre the population. On the contrary, the Barbarians took particular care to provide safe-houses for civilians and not to harm public buildings.

Henry Kissinger once wrote that "the public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance,

There is no public entertainment which does not inflict spiritual damage.

Apparently unembittered, she remained a charming, scatterbrained, unpunctual creature, the darling of the public. The Prince, by way of atonement, was always careful to treat her with great respect and courtesy.

Although, by the time of his second daughter's birth, the Duke had overcome the worst of his stammer, it tended to re-emerge under pressure; his public delivery remained slow and monotonous. All in all, he looked very largely what he was – a well-meaning man, but ill educated, self-doubting, unresolved.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public.

I suspect, though I cannot prove, that in part this is the consequence of living in a world, including a mental world, so thoroughly saturated by the products of the media of mass communication. In such a world, what is done or happens in private is not done or has not happened at all, at least not in the fullest possible sense.

In a democratic age, only the behaviour of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never. This is a modern version of Rousseau's doctrine: if it weren't for the authorities, the people would be good.

An actor or actress in politics is very dangerous because politics exaggerate the native dramatic instinct with the intoxication of substantive command.

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.

No man in public position can, under penalty of forfeiting the right to the respect of those whose regard he most values, fail as the opportunity comes to do all that in him lies for peace.

Gradually, however, I was forced to abandon the effort to persuade them to come my way, and then I achieved results only by appealing over the heads of the Senate and House leaders to the people, who were the masters of both of us.