Public Quotes

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed to do that, so we need a political process.

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

In New York, no one really cares who the hell you are. It's strange to be in the public eye where people have a perception of who you are, when they have never even met you.

The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

One fact we're particularly proud of is that there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the US than there are people learning languages in the entire US public school system.

It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.

I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion

Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good.

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship.

When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.

Life becomes difficult when you're in this public eye, and I think that we all relate to each other and I try and really talk about it in my music.

That cruelest of tyrants - public opinion.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.

I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and applied degradation of them.

Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.

Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.

The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way, he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.

[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.