Public Quotes
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If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort.
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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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When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war.
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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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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.
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We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
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I often feel lonely, but I never do while I am on stage… The public is my drug.
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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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The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders.
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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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I believe my office's efforts to educate the public are having a positive effect. We are seeing a larger percentage of charitable donations raised going to support charitable programs.
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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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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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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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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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Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.
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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
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Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish.
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I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.
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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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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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Public health is being sacrificed to keep us on the road.
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I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated.