Public Quotes - page 4

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. (Frank B. Kellogg)
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship. View quote
Don Tapscott
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. View quote
Elihu Root
Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana. View quote
Lana Turner
I'm not sure the public knows what it wants. View quote
Loretta Young
In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations. View quote
Jasmine Guy
Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to. View quote
Germaine Greer
...on youth unemployment - governments should ensure that one out of three of jobs in the public sector are opened up to the youth and that at least one person in every household should have access to a job. View quote
Tawakkol Karman
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples. View quote
John Updike
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good. (Charles Krauthammer)
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms. View quote
Horace Mann
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. View quote
Harry S. Truman
The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. View quote
John Adams
I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. View quote
James Madison
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. View quote
James Madison
I think with anybody who's doing well in the public eye or whatever, there's always gonna be a shift because people don't wanna see somebody happy all the time. And they're gonna try to take shots at people. View quote
Britney Spears
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back... View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The public seldom forgive twice. (Johann Kaspar Lavater)
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. View quote
William Hazlitt
There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life. View quote
George Eliot
I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower. View quote
Banksy
My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them. View quote
Edward Snowden