Public Quotes - page 2

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. (Edmund Burke)
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. View quote
Edmund Burke
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. View quote
Gore Vidal
Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works. View quote
Steve Ballmer
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. View quote
Samuel Johnson
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. View quote
Henry Miller
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. View quote
Rosalind Russell
If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it. View quote
Jascha Heifetz
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. View quote
Margaret Fuller
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. (David Mamet)
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. View quote
Mikhail Gorbachev
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of the kids. They out-number kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. View quote
Davy Crockett
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made. (Grover Cleveland)
Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. View quote
Herbert Hoover
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. View quote
Herbert Hoover
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. View quote
Plutarch