"The public is wiser than the wisest critic."

Bancroft, George · Public · 0 fans >>
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"You're not an M.P., you're a gastronomic pimp."

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"The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations."

Breton, Andre · Public · 0 fans >>
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"I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed."

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"The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called significant literature will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles."

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"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."

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"The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd."

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"The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say."

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"A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself."

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"The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant."

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