A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.
David Icke

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.
Bill O'Reilly

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Susan B. Anthony

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

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

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
Marshall McLuhan

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
Marshall McLuhan

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
Robert Benchley

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.
Curtis Lemay

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
Ralph Nader

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
Michel de Montaigne

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
Alfred Hitchcock

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Herbert Hoover

No public man can be just a little crooked.
Herbert Hoover

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
Herbert Hoover

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Herbert Hoover

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore Vidal

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir