Public Quotes
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I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.
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It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.
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It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.
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The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question.
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What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.
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The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
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I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.
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Rejoicing in his absolute authority, the single egoist will exploit it methodically, whereas a mêlée of egoists will bring about a ruinous disorder and a disastrous cleavage, because the contrariety of the appetites to be satisfied will prevent the satisfaction of any single one. Clearly, then, the effect of the pursuit of private ends under cover of the public good will be worse if there are many with a hand in power than if there is only one
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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
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There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.
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You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.
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In politics, a conflict only exists in public; otherwise it is merely a potential for conflict, which we can never be certain exists or will materialize.
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But members of the public are bound to be concerned and their concerns can be allayed if they are shown that every effort is being made by the European Union and by member states effectively to coordinate action.
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People in show business who are interested in politics, like Ronald Reagan, fare so well because they do know the magic of dealing with the public. This is something that can't be taught in a book. If they can produce after they've won over the public. If you can live up to your ballyhoo, you've got it made.
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We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
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Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.
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Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.
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They've just gone berserk. It's in the public interest to know where these large amounts of money are coming from.
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The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.
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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.
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We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.
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Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private.
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I think we very well may take it public again in 2007. We're going to make sure we explore every nook and cranny of America's economic landscape.
