Public Quotes - page 3

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. (Herbert Hoover)
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. View quote
Golda Meir
The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has changed. View quote
Edward Bernays
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear. View quote
Karl Kraus
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man - public opinion. View quote
Clarence Darrow
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. View quote
Scott Adams
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. (Alfred Austin)
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with. View quote
Matthew Henry
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector. View quote
Henry Hazlitt
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. View quote
William Shakespeare
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. View quote
Jean Cocteau
We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public. View quote
Walt Disney
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it. View quote
Voltaire
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. (Charles Dudley Warner)
Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city. View quote
Vitruvius
It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things. View quote
Rube Goldberg
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position. View quote
Thom Mayne
There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
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