Public Good Quotes
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Public Good Quotes & Sayings
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Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
— Patrick Henry
There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air.
— Eric Maskin
If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.
— Jaime Lerner
I'm an officer in her Majesty's Royal New Zealand Navy. I'm a public relations officer in the Royal New Zealand Navy. Sounds good, doesn't it?
— Mark Hadlow
The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed
— Anita Roddick
I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.
— Joanna Garcia
His dad said if you did something wrong to someone in public, you ought to admit it in public, too.
— Suzanne Collins
Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.
— Criss Jami
Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
— George Bernard Shaw
Sure." Olivia smirked. "Good ol' New York Public Library. I'm sure it's up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates.
— Cheyenne McCray
Public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.
— Sybille Bedford
We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.
— Henry Giroux
The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.
— Elliott Abrams
The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.
— John F. Kennedy
I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.
— Anne Waldman
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.
— Sophocles
You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
— Carl Bernstein
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.
— Leo Burnett
I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Banks do not create money for the public good. They are businesses owned by private shareholders. Their purpose is to make a profit.
— John Rogers
If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.
— Mickey Spillane
Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.
— William H. Prescott
If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real estate.
— Sam Zell
All geniuses born women are lost to the public good.
— Mary Pipher
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
— George Washington
I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.
— Warren Beatty
The American Public is who I'm interested in. Ultimately, if they think I'm good and they think I'm entertaining that's all that matters.
— Criss Angel
It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.
— Ronan Farrow
It is of infinite importance to the public that the acts of magistrates should not only be substantially good, but also that they should be decorous.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.
— Ben Stiller
Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes
— Sidney Howard
The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.
— Jack McDevitt
Anything you can do to protect the public and allow it to have the confidence that our financial controls are good is very, very positive.
— Jeff Koons
You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
— Alex Kapranos
It is good to be sitting some place
in public at 2:30 in the afternoon
without getting the flesh ripped from
your bones. — Charles Bukowski
in public at 2:30 in the afternoon
without getting the flesh ripped from
your bones. — Charles Bukowski
Bok strongly believed that good art should find a place in public buildings where large numbers of persons might find easy access to it.
— Edward Bok
It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.
— Judith Crist
As you may know, I have many good friends in the press who, unfortunately, have thus far refused to identify themselves and go public.
— Frank Sinatra
Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.
— Ben Stiller
[Tax] dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.
— Sarah Palin
Fans today don't only care about achievement, but about good looks, good public appearance and good lifestyle.
— Herbert Hainer
Public service is good for you,
— Jim Flaherty
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
— Thucydides
He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful
— Philip Massinger
These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.
— James Otis
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.
— Virgil
ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.
— Ambrose Bierce
It's so important to that we go into the public schools and we feed all of the kids something that is really good for them.
— Alice Waters
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
— William Blackstone
The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.
— Edmund Burke
Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.
— David Price
If doing a good act in public will excite others to do more good, then 'Let your light shine to all.' Miss no opportunity to do good.
— John Wesley
Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.
— Bob Schieffer
It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.
— Thomas Jefferson
It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.
— William J. Clinton
I feel like I know it is from my heart and God knows it is for a good cause, it is not necessary to be made public.
— Terrell Owens
Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated.
— Fred Lowe Soper
A good king is a public servant.
— Ben Jonson
There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.
— Anthony Fauci
Forget public service. We all come here with good intentions, but as time passes, it becomes all about self-service and selfish survival.
— Congressman X
Public is a good expert on making bad mistakes!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Good public speaking is based on good private thinking
— Scott Berkun
in all well-regulated communities, the conveniency of an individual must give way to public good'.
— Naresh Fernandes
The powers contained in a constitution ... ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.
— Alexander Hamilton
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.
— Mary Frances Berry
Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They'll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it.
— Jan Gehl
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
We may not agree on what a good society is, but... we will never have one until we realize that the public we complain about is us.
— Kenneth L. Woodward
Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
— Rudyard Kipling
He doth much who loveth much. He doth much who doth well. He doth well who ministereth to the public good rather than to his own.
— Thomas A Kempis
Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.
— Luigi Barzini
In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye.
— Galcher Lustwerk
I'm a simple small 'c' conservative who believes in public service, serving others, and doing a good job for my country.
— David Cameron
That kind always has the public good as a motive to justify every abomination.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.
— Mariella Frostrup
I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good.
— Branch Rickey
I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
— Nathan Hale
A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of you in public.
— T.E. Lawrence
For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.
— Danah Boyd
The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.
— Charles W. Pickering
Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.
— Miyamoto Musashi
A 1940 Gallup poll showed 83 percent of the public was against intervention. A good pretext was needed to gain support from an intransigent public.
— Jim Marrs
I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.
— Bill De Blasio
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.
— Charles Krauthammer
I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.
— Janice Dickinson
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare
TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.
— Douglas Coupland
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
— William Ewart Gladstone