Quotes about Public, page 5

A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about public

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about public

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about public

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Quote by Walter Benjamin about public

The public is always good.

Quote by Franz Liszt about public

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

Quote by Claude Debussy about public

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Quote by Andrew Fletcher about public

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

Quote by Marlon Brando about public

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.

Quote by Irwin Allen Ginsberg about public

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Quote by Irwin Allen Ginsberg about public

One whose behavior depends on public opinion is never sure of himself.

Quote by Jean Francois Marmontel about public

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightement at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Quote by Henry Louis Mencken about public