General Public Quotes - Page 4

• Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

  Steven Wright

  Thinking, Comedian, Stuff

  9 Copy quote

• The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

  Billy Barty

  Thinking, Doctors, Nurse

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbreaking things to the point where the general public thinks, 'Oh, here comes those animal folks again and I'm going to hear all the things I don't want to hear.'

  Betty White

  Animal, Thinking, Heartbreaking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Thinking, Two, Long

  FaceBook post by Thomas Pynchon from Mar 09, 2015

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few - the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.

  Smedley Butler

  War, Blood, Territory

  Smedley Darlington Butler (2016). “War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Basically, there are two things we know: Everybody has less time, and the general public is demanding better food - better in terms of quality and better in terms of flavor.

  Bobby Flay

  Two, Quality, Flavor

  "Bobby Flay on Good Fast Food and Bad Restaurant Ideas". Interview with Andrew Del-Colle, www.menshealth.com. March 11, 2011.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

  Clay Shirky

  Class, Capability, Transfers

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.21, Penguin UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Loss, Hands, Risk

  4 Copy quote

• There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science and technology. This comes as no surprise to those of us who have watched and tried to warn against the steady deterioration in the teaching of science and mathematics in the schools for the past quarter century. It comes as no surprise to those who have known of dozens of cases of scientists who have been hounded out of jobs by silly disloyalty charges, and kept out of all professional employment by widespread blacklisting practices.

  Edward Condon

  Jobs, Silly, Teaching

  7 Copy quote

• Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison.

  Robert D. Hare

  Successful, Ideas, People

  48 Copy quote

• The general systems of money management today require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a funny business because on a net basis, the whole investment management business together gives no value added to all buyers combined. That's the way it has to work. Mutual funds charge two percent per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another three to four percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals.

  John C. Bogle

  Years, Two, People

  71 Copy quote

• The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.

  Moliere

  Powerful, Doctors, Medicine

  10 Copy quote

• My general impression about people like Steve Gould and Carl Sagan and so on is that when they disappear as individuals and are no longer appearing on the stage and they are no longer writing, that their lifetime of acknowledgement by the general reading public is not very long... There were many people in the 19th century who were equally famous people who gave working man's lectures, supporters of Darwin, we as scholars know their names but the general public never heard of them.

  Richard Lewontin

  Reading, Writing, Men

  Source: www.abc.net.au

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.

  Christopher Bollen

  America, Quality, Musician

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

  Garrett Hardin

  Doe, Unbearable, Behavior

  Garrett James Hardin (1972). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”, Viking Adult

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.

  Brian Greene

  Opposites, Needs, Way

  4 Copy quote

• I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.

  Paul Kane

  Photography, Film, Paint

  4 Copy quote

• Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

  Garrett Hardin

  Environmental, Environmentalist, Hated

  Garrett James Hardin (1982). “Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker”, Course Technology Ptr

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Smith could not be expected to have anticipated the horrors that were to come. But even in his own time, he was a defender of certain state actions that he thought necessary in order to safeguard the good effects of commercial society (Smith did not speak of 'capitalism' and was acquainted only with an early undeveloped form of it). Among these state actions the chief was general public education.

  Allen W. Wood

  Order, Action, Horror

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think, what I want to say is that yes, my ideas have travelled into popular culture they also emerged from popular culture in a way, or from the general public as you put it. But not as a program.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Ideas, Culture

  Source: ilga.org

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Wall, Thinking, Streets

  Source: www.salon.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

  Frank Gehry

  Get Better, Desire, Needs

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We can tell the general public that the gold and foreign currency reserves of the Central Bank are not designed to finance the economy, but rather to ensure foreign trade turnover. Therefore, we need this level to be able to provide the necessary foreign trade turnover for such an economy as Russia's for a period of at least three months.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Gold, Three

  Source: thesaker.is

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The mythology in rock n' roll is that I'm a bit of a loose cannon. Yet I've produced more music than anybody in my generation. So how much of a loose cannon am I? But the general public believes that I'm a loose cannon, so let them believe it. I'm not going to correct them.

  Billy Corgan

  Believe, Rocks, Generations

  "A Conversation With Billy Corgan Part II". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have committed to contribute in raising general public awareness, as well as inspiring broad, positive, committed action against illegal trade. It is an on-going and tough fight, but I believe that if we all join our hands, we can conquer!

  Yaya Toure

  Believe, Fighting, Hands

  "Interview with International Football Star Yaya Touré". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source