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Quotes About Public

Il migliore argomento contro la democrazia è una conversazione di cinque minuti con l'elettore medio.
~ Winston Churchill
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away… people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.
~ Winston S. Churchill
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The
~ Winston S. Churchill
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away.
~ Winston S. Churchill
I could never run for President of the United States. All that handshaking of people I didn't give a damn about would kill me. Ten minutes here. Ten minutes there…Not for me.
~ Winston S. Churchill
A modern dictator with the resources of science at his disposal can easily lead the public on from day to day, destroying all persistency of thought and aim, so that memory is blurred by the multiplicity of daily news and judgment baffled by its perversion
~ Winston S. Churchill
in our human state there is no separation between public deeds and personal psychology, and the story of the one would be incomplete without the other.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Such was the picture presented to the public, and such was the mood which ruled. It was not however entirely in accordance with the facts; and facts, especially in war, are stubborn things.
~ Winston S. Churchill
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~ Woody Allen
was also writing of the love-hate relationship the public has with its heroes or celebrities. One moment they want your autograph, the next they're ready to shoot you. Some
~ Woody Allen
And given that my proposal were carried into effect, the only novelty in it is that, just as the individual in acquiring the ownership of a gang of slaves finds himself at once provided with a permanent source of income, so the state, in like fashion, should possess herself of a body of public slaves, to the number, say, of three for every Athenian citizen.
~ Xenophon
Evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
~ Yann Martel
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
~ Yann Martel
Seperti perpustakaan umum, atau museum, kebun binatang bertujuan melayani bidang pendidikan populer serta ilmu pengetahuan.
~ Yann Martel
These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile
~ Yann Martel
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
~ Christopher Hitchens
My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.
~ Christopher Hitchens
What democracy requires is vigorous public debate, not information. Of course, it needs information too, but the kind of information it needs can be generated only bys debate. We do not know what we need to know until we ask the right questions, and we can identify the right questions only by subjecting our own ideas about the world to the test of public controversy.
~ Christopher Lasch
Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.
~ Christopher Moore
Reputations are created every day and every minute.
~ Unknown
I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.
~ Chuck Grassley
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. (Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)
~ Cicero
disgrace is crucial for driving the public's attention where you want it. The point is to enable the president to control more attention by harnessing the power of disgrace himself. He really needs to own it, punk-rock style, in order to funnel your gaze into exactly the dirty little sweet hole where he wants it. This
~ Cintra Wilson
I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.
~ Claes Oldenburg