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Public Quotes (page 21)

There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating. Lois McMaster Bujold
I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control. David Foster Wallace
Walter Lippmann quote: "there are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal..."
there are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human. Walter Lippmann
Barbara Pym quote: "Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for..."
Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there... Barbara Pym
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with icy cynicism and paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House lurk ominous clouds of despair across this nation. Cornel West
George Orwell quote: "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want..."
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. George Orwell
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude..."
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
bad men... aim at getting more than their share of advantages, while in labor and public service they fall short of their share; and each man wishing for advantage to himself criticizes his neighbor and stands in his way; for if people do not watch it carefully the common weal is soon destroyed. The result is that they are in a state of faction, putting compulsion on each other but unwilling themselves to do what is just. Aristotle
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university. John Jakes
I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell! They'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog! Emily Dickinson
Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation. - Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Karl Pilkington quote: "It wouldn't happen... There hasn't been one publication by a..."
It wouldn't happen... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey Karl Pilkington
In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world. David Hume
Ray Bradbury quote: "Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself..."
Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. Ray Bradbury

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