The Public Good Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about The Public Good

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A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. — Winston S. Churchill

One incredible tool to accomplish bringing a product to the public is to put a face on TV shows, movies, and the actors in them by using good PR. — Kristoffer Polaha

There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air. — Eric Maskin

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up. — George Herbert Mead

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

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable — Murray Rothbard

I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public. — Joanna Garcia

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

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so. — Tacitus

Public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good. — Sybille Bedford

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 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

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good. — Luc De Clapiers

The only thing you owe the public is a good performance. — Humphrey Bogart

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. — George Will

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

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

We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting. — Rose Schneiderman

I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers. — Dan Rosensweig

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

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

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

In the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

[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

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain — Robert Kennedy

Suspicion is a virtue as long its object is the preservation of public good — Patrick Henry

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

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. — Adam Smith

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

All geniuses born women are lost to the public good. — Mary Pipher

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good. — Thomas A Kempis

A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public. — Nicolas Chamfort

Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise. — Konosuke Matsushita

I like some of the young guys like Senator Thune. He's a guy that looks good. He's very articulate, he's very smart, and he truly is a public servant. — John Boozman

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective. — Ayn Rand

To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel. — David Alan Grier

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good. — Meg Whitman

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. — Linus Torvalds

If the public likes you, you're good. — Mickey Spillane

The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason. — Billy Collins

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness. — Samuel Adams

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases. — John Wilbanks

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life. — Billy Collins

Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why. — Rene Redzepi

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private. — Michel De Montaigne

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good. — Tacitus

Do good in the name of children. Do good in the name of public health. — Arthur Caplan

Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated. — Fred Lowe Soper

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

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

The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good. — Joel Bakan

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it. — John Wayne

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

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? — Rudyard Kipling

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public. — Anthony Fauci

I owe the public just one thing - a good performance. — Bob Gibson

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

I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons. — Gary Cohn

The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good. — George Dyson

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

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

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

Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good. — William H. Prescott

That kind always has the public good as a motive to justify every abomination. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. — Plato

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

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero. — James Otis

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation. — Charles W. Pickering

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

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good. — Virgil

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