T Quotes
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“The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.”
Source: The progress of a biographer
“The public misunderstands art. It's considered superfluous and self-indulgent. It's the exact opposite. The creative dig for the meaning and substance in our lives – the deeper truths.”
Source: Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
“The public must and will be served.”
Source: Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
“The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.”
Source: The Phantom Public
“The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.”
“The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.”
Source: Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters
“The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.”
Source: Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v
“The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.”
“The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.”
“The public needs the equivalent of Chevrolets as well as Cadillacs.”
“The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.”
“The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is meaningless... The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.”
“The public needs to lose the false perception that WiFi and cell phones are harmless technology.”
“The public negotiations and secret intrigues of the English (Jews) and the French (Jews) have been employed for centuries in every court and country in Europe. Look back to the history of Spain, Holland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, Italy and Turkey for the last hundred years...all the power of Europe will be continually maneuvering with us to work us into the real or imaginary balance of power.”
“The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of boring people with endless photo montages of the Chelsea Pensioners in their dress reds, or close-ups of a Pimm's Cup sprouting all kinda of flora, has yet to be proven. People like Wimbledon in the same way they like blue jeans or even their own spouses: for the pleasure yielded by their reliable sameness.”
Source: The Courts of Babylon: Tales of Greed and Glory in a Harsh New World of Professional Tennis
“the public never is independently responsive to news.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Harriman Definitive Editions): The classic novel based on the life of legendary stock market speculator Jesse Livermore
“The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art of honeyed words but not to seem neutral, and above all to keep constantly audible, visible, likable, even kissable.”
“The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order.”
Source: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography
“The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.”
Source: A Call to Order, Written Between the Years 1918 and 1926 and Including
“The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency.”
“The public personality of a leader is not what really matters. What he does out of the open stage really tells more about him than anything else.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.”
Source: The Idler
“The public-private partnership at the core of sustainable development seems to work well for the most privileged.”
Source: Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed
“The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.”
“The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases.”
“The public psychology of going into debt for gain passes through several more or less distinct phases: (a) the lure of big prospective dividends or gains in income in the remote future; (b) the hope of selling at a profit, and realizing a capital gain in the immediate future; (c) the vogue of reckless promotions, taking advantage of the habituation of the public to great expectations; (d) the development of downright fraud, imposing on a public which had grown credulous and gullible.”
“The public read newspapers, see television, they watch, they don't know if it's true or false because they're not involved.”
“The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical manifestation of the common good. When you degrade the public realm, you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life and the character of all the enactments of your public life and communal life that take place there.”
“The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.”
“The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.”
“The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors.”
“The Public Safety Act, 1978, was introduced by Sheikh Abdullah in 1978 to deal with smuggling. Farooq Abdullah, GM Shah, Mufti Sayeed, GN Azad, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti have all been chief ministers of JK. They could have easily repealed the PSA and prevented untold suffering and human rights violations,”
“The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.”
“The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.”
“The public school has become the established church of secular society.”
“The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.”
“The public school system is damned. Let me tell you how radical I am. Christian students should be in Christian schools. If you have to sell your car, live in a smaller house, or work a night job, put your child in Christian schools. If you can't afford it, homeschool.”
“The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature jails, really. It’s only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated.”
Source: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
“The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority."”
“The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." - Walter Karp, Editor Harper's Magazine
The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.”
“The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who hold particular religious views, nor indeed from those who subscribe to any creed at all.”
“The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.”
“The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that the productive resources of society - far from satisfying the wants of consumers - are now directed, by compulsion, away from these wants and needs. The consumers are deliberately thwarted, and the resources of the economy diverted from them to those activities desire by the parasitic bureaucracy and politicians.”
Source: Economic Controversies
“The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.”
“The public seldom forgive twice.”
“The public service is not a serial child-snatcher”
“The public service needs lots of people, South Africa generally, needs lots of people.”
“The public should always be notified as soon as possible in the event of a leak or other emergency at a nuclear facility.”
“The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.”
“The public should not have to police the police.”