Quotes About Public

Modern conflict is as much about conditioning public opinion as any other strategy in the war against terror.

The public blabbers about preventative medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure.

It was easy for you to say these things, since you either knew you were not writing to Luther, but for the general public, or you did not reflect that it was Luther you were writing against, whom I hope you allow nonetheless to have some acquaintance with Holy Writ and some judgment in respect of it.

to live in good morals means calm and peace for the conscience, however much disquiet there may be in the flesh in public.

Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents.

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

into the ground in front of everyone on a visit earlier

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

Caesar had a shrewd eye for his public image, and the Commentaries is a carefully contrived justification of his conduct and parade of his military skills. But it is also an early example of what we might call imperial ethnography.

Roman lawyers were expressly forbidden to receive fees for their service, and it is often rightly said that what Cicero gained by pleading in high-profile cases was public prominence.

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

It stirs up envy, fame does. People...feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you--and it won't hurt your feelings--like it's happening to your clothing.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention

The crowd went wild, and a few girls standing near me whispered among themselves. I thought it was time for him to put his shirt back on. (pg 242)

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe

The state has moved from being the main creator of public money to being a supplicant 'housewife'.

There are two monetary circuits in contemporary economies, a public money circuit and a commercial money circuit. Both create and circulate the public currency. The difference between them is that one is based on debt, the other is not.

They told the truth, but they buried it so deep in the footnotes of scientific reports and the jargon of obscure journals that almost none of it could emerge to penetrate public consciousness.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Popper rightly believed that the public-not just scientists or philosophers-needs to understand and appreciate that distinction, because science is too powerful and important, and pseudoscience too common and damaging, for an open society to afford ignorance on the matter.

Speakership is the great certainty filter. Anything you're unsure about will be exposed and interrogated when you say it in public.

We only reveal what we want other people to know, right? It's like we create fictional characters for the public. And inside we're somebody totally different.

And besides, libraries aren't just about books. They are one of the few public spaces we have left which don't like our wallets more than us.