Quotes
Quotes about Public
The author of the Satanic Verses book, which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran, and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death. I ask all Moslems to execute them wherever they find them.
Tortured for the Republic. [Lat., Strangulatus pro republica.]
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. Every person in this life has something to teach me - and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening. -John Lahr.
Republic of letters.
The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters.
The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.]
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's privacy.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins.
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind.
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.
In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat. - "Time", On Journalists, May 8, 1950.
