278 Quotes About Public

I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA.

Personal and private and public and professional lives are blended.Separating them is what makes a fraud, hypocrite, alter ego.

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

You just need to be convincing enough to fool the public. That’s easy.

Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth and falsehood, reason and unreason, light and darkness on an equal footing. It is a blow cast in defence of intellectual freedom, as the optimists construe it, namely the freedom to believe anything at all, provided you feel better for it.

A corrupt police force is the public face of a corrupt government.

Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.

The police have lost sight of the fact that they are public servants.