Public Quotes - page 3

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre. (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.
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.
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.
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.
Clarence Darrow
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Scott Adams
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
Marlene Dietrich
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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.
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. (Allen Ginsberg)
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.
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.
William Shakespeare
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Jean Cocteau
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
Jean Cocteau
We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.
Walt Disney
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
Charles Dudley Warner
It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.
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. (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.
Frank B. Kellogg
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.
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.
Elihu Root