Quotes About Public

O amor é público, ou não é amor.

Love is public,... or it's not love. Love is shared with others or it dies.

The first reactions to The Bell Curve were expressions of public outrage.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." --H. L. Mencken

Why do you think this great nation of ours loves the Royal Family? Gun Law. If we didn't have it, you'd be asking the opposite question.

L'arte appartiene a tutti e a nessuno. L'arte appartiene a tutti i tempi e a nessun tempo in particolare. L'arte appartiene a chi la produce e a chi l'assapora. L'arte non appartiene più al Popolo e al Partito di quanto una volta non appartenesse all'aristocrazia e ai mecenati. L'arte è il mormorio della storia, udibile al di là del rumore del tempo. L'arte non esiste per sé: esiste per il pubblico.

But that's what happens when you allow a nice person to write a news paper serial for you; now the world thinks you're nice, too, which is silly in the extreme. Sadly, it's a burden that you must bear.

Parliament is a rumor mill staffed by trough-fed clods who abuse the tongue of their birth every time they open their mouths. They all gabble at once and confuse one another mightily, and when this confusion is committed to paper they refer to it as 'policy.

I have always been a House of Commons man.

No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . .

My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or show weakness would have demoralized them.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.