Top 1200 General Public Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Some women are forced by men to look a certain way to be accepted by the general public, and I find that terrible.

Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.

I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among the states, - opposed to taking the power from the hands of the people, - opposed to special monopolies, - opposed to a protective tariff, - opposed to a latitudinal construction of the constitution, - opposed to slavery agitation and disunion. This is my democracy. Point to a single act of my public career not in keeping with these principles.

I think that the general public understands that its own doctors are human, fallible, and flawed.

So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.

No encounter, mouth open up ... that is how the drug businesses see the general public.

In general, I feel very happy with how I got to have time on my own at least a little bit outside of the public eye.

The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question.

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

When Congress and the general public disagree simply along party lines, the Russians are winning.

Trump's relentless public humiliation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions was clearly intended to get him to resign.

New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.

The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues.

The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in poetry, if anything, repose from material and nervous anxiety; an apt or chiselled phrase strokes the appetites and tickles the imagination. The more general public merely enjoys its platitudes and truisms jerked on to the understanding in line and rhyme; truth put into metre sounds overwhelmingly true.

My sense, talking to the general public around the country, is that most people don't have a very high level of scientific literacy.

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.

Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.

To the general public in America, the lifespan of Deep Purple probably finished with our 1984 album, 'Perfect Strangers.'

Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals.

The notion of getting the general public into low-Earth orbit I don't think is far-fetched at all.

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden, would make a great United States senator - just as I believe he has been a great attorney general. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.

Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.

I think the days of the climate deniers are over. To deny basic science is to risk the trust of the general public.

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

I certainly wouldn't want to be a Republican who votes to significantly increase taxes for certain segments of the general public.

There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in the particular. From the former procedure there ensues allegory, in which the particular serves only as illustration, as example of the general. The latter procedure, however, is genuinely the nature of poetry; it expresses something particular, without thinking of the general or pointing to it.

Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.

I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.

The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them

Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.

No matter what the general public says. When it's something you want, you have to block out that noise and negativity and just go for it.

Fans, wrestlers, and even the general public have been conditioned to believe that there's an enormous skill gap between WWE and everyone else.

I hope to get the general public listening, the ones curious to see the woman who sat in the tree for two years.

Any man who has been given the honor of being promoted to general and who says, "I will protect another general who protects Communists," is not fit to wear that uniform, general.

Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is yet to be seen.

Nouns are seldom improved by the modifier 'public.' Few of us, given a private alternative, prefer public restrooms or public transportation or public displays of affection.

We've already seen, in practically every country around the world where these issues have been covered, that the general public has recoiled at the ideology behind these programs.

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

For the general public or psychos on Facebook, for everyone who's made one negative comment about me, I've probably gotten 250-300 positive comments.

Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public bridges, higher tuitions at so-called public universities, higher admission fees at public parks and public museums.

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

Our concern is to help people counter the efforts of those who seek to "regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers," so that the self-designated "responsible men" will be able to run the affairs of the world untroubled by the "bewildered herd" - the general public - who are to be marginalized and dispersed, directed to personal concerns, in a well-regulated "democracy."

Trump's divisive rhetoric targets low-information voters and won't play well with the general public, either.

I think some people have a vague idea, but the general public has no clue what the actual behind-the-scenes of filmmaking is and what this profession is.

We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.

I can be among the general public and next to me is a big picture of my face, but no one notices apart from my friends.

I've seen a shift in general about the literacy of the public to what Tourette's is. And that's a testament to local kids and parents having the courage to share their experience.

Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

The general public still expects a lot more forecasting accuracy than any of us can deliver.

We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.

I've been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.