One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
James Joyce

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
George Eliot

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Scott Adams

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Paul Gauguin

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Isaac Newton

I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do.
Jim Cramer

I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987.
Jim Cramer

Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.
Jimmy Swaggart

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Grover Cleveland

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
Grover Cleveland

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Grover Cleveland

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
Aleister Crowley

There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'
Chuck D.

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
Gerald R. Ford

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.
Ross Perot

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.
Heidi Klum

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Robert Peel