General Public Quotes

• You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

  Scott Adams

  Stupid, Underestimate, Dilbert

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• In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

  B. Carroll Reece

  Running, Teaching, Ideas

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• The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them

  Noam Chomsky

  Fate, Decision, Influence

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• The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Ideas, Ignorant

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• The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

  Bernard Tschumi

  Eye, Bricks And Mortar, Comfort

  Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.247, MIT Press

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• But politicians who talk about failed policies are just blowing smoke. Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to do: channeling resources bilked from the general public to politically organized and influential interests groups.

  Robert Higgs

  Government, Succeed, Groups

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• The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.

  David M. Raup

  Gossip, Television, Maelstrom

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• Anyone who says the Backstreet Boys can't sing is crazy. They're probably just reading some highbrow critic who hates anyone the general public embraces. I'm sorry, but those boys sing their butts off. They work hard on their choreography, and on their harmonies. Their tracks are tight and solid. Their songs are musical and memorable.

  Tony Orlando

  Song, Sorry, Hate

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• There are many reasons why the general public doesn't really understand our monetary system. In the first place, money is something that people tend to get emotional about. After all, money involves, and always has involved, something closely akin to faith-which probably explains why in many past societies the money system has been in the hands of a priesthood, the subject of magical rites, and the ceremonial services of the tribe's medicine man.

  Wright Patman

  Wisdom, Men, Emotional

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• The notion of people commenting on you, the notion of people saying things about you, people liking or disliking you and getting into your business, has become more of a reality for the general public over the last years, as people have dipped further into Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and social media.

  Eric Bana

  Reality, Media, Years

  "Eric Bana Talks CLOSED CIRCUIT, Working in London Locations, Today’s Privacy Issues, LONE SURVIVOR, and BEWARE THE NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 29, 2013.

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• There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Be Good, Impediments

  "Bird flu: how two mutant strains led to an international controversy" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.

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• There is also the fact that NORAD-Northeast was conducting war game exercises that morning, a fact that has been very little talked about and certainly not reported to the general public. What's also not been reported, according to the information that I have, at least one of the scenarios they were considering in their war game exercises concerned hijacked aircraft being crashed into buildings. Now, this could explain the lack of response when the air traffic controllers began to report that four planes were off course.

  Jim Marrs

  Morning, War, Exercise

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• The Constitution is the fundamental rule for people to live in society. If the rule no longer suits the lives of the general public due to changing times, it should be changed. That goes for regular laws as well as the Constitution.

  Ichiro Ozawa

  Law, People, Fundamentals

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• Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

  Chris Elliott

  Television, Accepted, Wanted

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• A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.

  William Delbert Gann

  Business, Successful, Opposites

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• Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

  Christina Romer

  President, Minimum Wage, Unions

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• Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

  Charles M. Vest

  Goal, Research, Congress

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• Well, you know, like, I don`t really give a f**k what the general public think.

  Sid Vicious

  Thinking, Giving, Wells

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• There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity ... When the Great One comes with His disciples and initiates we shall have ... the restoration of the Mysteries and their exoteric presentation as a consequence of the first initiation.

  Alice Bailey

  Expression, Church, Restoration

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• I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.

  Curtis Jackson

  Thinking, People, Perception

  "I'm not trying to save the world" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2006.

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• Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and annihilate ignorance founded in being white in a society where the perspective and voice presented to the general public is white.

  Inga Muscio

  Ignorance, Color, Voice

  Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.137, Seal Press

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• I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive.

  Moshe Safdie

  Strong, Thinking, Hands

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• I thought it [Star Wars] was too wacky for the general public. Right or wrong this is my movie, this is my decision, and this is my creative vision, and if people don't like it, they don't have to see it.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, People

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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

  Book, May, Good Book

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• The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations, is a measure of governmental interference. And when those forced revelations concern maters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reactions in the life of the witness may be disastrous.

  Earl Warren

  Government, Expression, May

  Earl Warren (1959). “The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren”

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