Public Quotes

She hung up before he could say goodbye. Stood there with her arm cocked, phone at ear-level, suddenly aware of the iconic nature of her unconscious pose. Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places, that had once belong to cigarettes, now belonged to phones.

~ William Gibson

The Society of Professional Journalists believes that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. If that is so, can justice or democracy be secure in a media world where public enlightenment has been supplanted by the superficial?

~ Larry J. Schweiger

Democratic ideas cannot exist without the public spheres that make them possible.

~ Henry A. Giroux

We live in a time that demands a discourse of both critique and possibility, one that recognizes that without an informed citizenry, collective struggle, and viable social movements, democracy will slip out of our reach and we will arrive at a new stage of history marked by the birth of an authoritarianism that not only disdains all vestiges of democracy but is more than willing to relegate it to a distant memory.

~ Henry A. Giroux

Western governments use thermal heating standards for public protection from the damaging effects of wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation. Eastern governments use biological standards that are much lower due to the extensive long term radiation damage that has been seen to occur in humans at the western thermal heating standard.

~ Steven Magee

Not upholding a persons legal rights is a form of abuse. Unfortunately, USA government abuse of the general public is a normal state of affairs in many areas.

~ Steven Magee

The police have lost sight of the fact that they are public servants.

~ Steven Magee

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves not others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies. Sabina despised literature in which people give away all kinds of intimate secrets about themselves and their friends. A man who loses his privacy loses everything, Sabina thought. And a man who gives it up on his own free will is a monster. That is why Sabina did not suffer in the least from having to keep her love a secret. On the contrary, only by doing so could she live the truth.

~ Milan Kundera

Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Hannibal knew your beauty was trouble. Only bad things could come from such a pretty girl. You were made for temptation. You would be a source of jealousy and greed. Men would lust, plot and kill to claim you as their own. He decided to place you in the public domain and donate your body to the pimps as a gift to the people.

~ James W. Bodden

Most USA citizens never realize that the systems of public protection are essentially useless until they try to use them. At that point they learn the hard way that government agencies like OSHA, FCC, FDA, police internal affairs, disability, and the like do not work for them.

~ Steven Magee

This is not a guilty pleasure of mine, simply because I don't believe in guilty pleasures. Snobbery is just the public face of insecurity.

~ James Kakalios

Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight to his steps. The Term 'genius' when applied to him simply means a man who understands what others only know about. A poet, artist or architect, necessarily 'understands' in this sense and is likely, if not careful, to have the term 'genius' applied to him; in which case he will no longer be thought human, trustworthy or companionable. Whatever may be his medium of expression he utters truth with manifest beauty of thought. If he is an architect, his building is natural. In him, philosophy and genius live by each other, but the combination is subject to popular suspicion and appellation 'genius' likely to settle him--so far as the public is concerned.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

The ordinary public is a puppet of worthless news and media.

~ Santosh Kalwar

It is now certain that the public does know. It is not so certain that the public does care.

~ G.k. Chesterton

I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA.

~ Steven Magee

It’s relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private.

~ Robert Black

• Scientific and medical studies, research or evidence is either distorted and misrepresented, or disputed or outright ignored by opponents whose views are threatened by the facts, in public shows of articles, statements, websites and even legislation. Scientific facts are ignored or dismissed as being ‘a liberal agenda’ or ‘merely propaganda’.

~ Christina Engela

It’s always better to sit on your dignity in private than to stand on it in public.

~ Mark Lawrence

The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?” (pp.281-82)

~ Sarah Turnbull

An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.

~ Samuel R. Delany

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

~ Joseph Campbell

All actors should experience public failure.

~ Olivia Wilde

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

~ Felix Adler

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

~ Tom Lantos

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

~ Tyrone Power

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

~ Kurt Vonnegut

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

~ John Philip Sousa

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

~ Bruce Jackson

As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.

~ Shah Rukh Khan

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

~ Mitch Daniels

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

~ Iris Murdoch

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

~ Marilyn Monroe

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.

~ Alex Berenson

The public seldom forgive twice.

~ Johann Kaspar Lavater

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

~ Jean Cocteau

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

~ Willard Gaylin

I feel alone and safe in public.

~ Gene Wilder