Quotes About Public

He kept himself in line with popular opinion, which meant popular prejudice.

But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.

Wat weten Amerikanen eigenlijk van moraal? Ze willen niet dat hun president een penis heeft, maar het doet hen niets als hun president stiekem hulp voor Nicaraguaanse rebellen organiseert nadat het Congres dat heeft verboden; ze willen niet dat hun president zijn vrouw bedriegt, maar het kan hen niets schelen als hun president het Congres bedondert - als hij liegt tegen het volk en de grondwet van het volk schendt.

the public entertainment of any period distinguishing the period as clearly as its so-called politics

But I also think the doctrine of laissez faire, carried to its extreme, is equally repugnant. Too many capitalists use laissez faire as an excuse to gouge the public and exploit the poor.

the public was tired of divisive politics, tired of radical social programs.

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman -- they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence

the visitors to that questionable museum would defecate into their garish tourist outfits

In the chapters that follow, we will see, and repeatedly, how the investing public is fascinated and captured by the great financial mind. That fascination derives, in turn, from the scale of the financial operations and the feeling that, with so much money involved, the mental resources behind them cannot be less. Only

In the larger history of economics and finance, no year stands out as does 1929. It is, as I have elsewhere observed—like 1066, 1776, 1914, 1945, and now, perhaps, with the collapse of Communism, 1989—richly evocative in the public memory.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

Within a year or two, however, a couple of the first things I wrote – 'Anarchy In The UK' and 'God Save The Queen' – really hit their target. I'd like to thank the British public library system: that was my training ground, that's where I learned to throw those verbal grenades. I wasn't just throwing bricks through shop windows as a voice of rebellion, I was throwing words where they really mattered. Words count.

And the reluctance, inability, or outright refusal of the American government to shift targets would contribute to the killing. Wilson took no public note of the disease, and the thrust of the government was not diverted.

The study of epidemic disease is, of course, a prime focus of public health.

Finally, if any NPIs are to have any effect, the public has to comply with the recommendations and sustain that compliance.

observing that America was "a country governed by public opinion," Gregory intended to help Wilson rule opinion and, through opinion, the country.

But as horrific as the disease itself was, public officials and the media helped create that terror—not by exaggerating the disease but by minimizing it, by trying to reassure.

In 1918 the lies of officials and of the press never allowed the terror to condense into the concrete. The public could trust nothing and so they knew nothing.

I am Public Opinion. All men fear me!

Thus, only drastic action could prevent the spread of influenza throughout the city. Banning public meetings, closing businesses and schools, imposing an absolute quarantine on the Navy Yard and on civilian

Those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best.

Monument and Ignacio, Colorado, went further than banning all public gatherings. They banned customers from stores; the stores remained open, but customers shouted orders through doors, then waited outside for packages. Colorado Springs placarded homes with signs that read "Sickness.

However, lowering transaction costs is a task not only for entrepreneurs, but also for public policy. The government has the responsibility to establish and maintain an environment within which markets can work efficiently. (I will refer to this aspect of market design as formal or top-down.)