General Public Quotes

#1. 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

#2. We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.

Hansjorg Wyss

#3. 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

#4. Some of the most vulnerable people to getting the SARS virus are health care providers. The general public, walking in the street, there is really not that much risk at all. It's a very, very low risk - a very, very low risk.

Anthony Fauci

#5. True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.

George Aiken

#6. It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.

Paul Mellon

#7. It is scrutiny by the general public that keeps the powerful honest.

Heather Brooke

#8. Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political debate and action, if democracy is to survive.

Noam Chomsky

#9. You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public.

Lowell Bergman

#10. I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.

Marco Brambilla

#11. 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

#12. The utilitarian argument against fiestas, parades, carnivals, and general public merriment is that they produce nothing. But they do: they produce society. They renew the reasons why we might want to belong and the feeling that we do.

Rebecca Solnit

#13. If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of people understand them better? Would their work be better understood by the general public, policy-makers, funders, and, even in some cases, other scientists?

Alan Alda

#14. For members of the general public might not care about Wolf-Rayet stars in the Quintuplet Cluster, but they definitely saw why having hot rocks fall on one's head was a good thing to avoid.

Neal Stephenson

#15. I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.

Eartha Kitt

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

Katharine Graham

#19. I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

Yingluck Shinawatra

#20. 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

#21. A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

Benjamin Butler

#22. You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public

Scott Adams

#23. 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

#24. I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.

Camille Paglia

#25. It's no surprise that academics in this country have been generally suspicious of business or that in a time like this, when general public confidence in the corporation has fallen, the expressions of hostility grow sharper.

James Q. Wilson

#26. In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public.

Tom Wolfe

#27. There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.

Conrad Black

#28. It's generally sort of sociologically observed that the better educated people are, the more liberal they tend to be, which would suggest that professors are going to be more liberal than the general public.

Louis Menand

#29. UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public. In fact, they're lower. You say, why is that so? Well, because we know what the hell we're looking at!

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

Billy Barty

#31. We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.

Jim Barksdale

#32. A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.

Nicolas Chamfort

#33. No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.

Johan Huizinga

#34. Thank you." I pulled the soft material close. "I think the general public would be shocked to know how deep your sweetness runs."
Daemon stretched out, resting on his side."They can never know.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#35. No encounter, mouth open up ... that is how the drug businesses see the general public.

Jerry Seinfeld

#36. The truth is, you can be honest with your friends - but you just can't be honest with the general public if you want to keep your friends.

Jennifer Saunders

#37. The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question.

Marion Nestle

#38. Calling out the supposed 'abuse' of welfare by blacks and other people of color is a time-honored tactic for distracting the general public from actual national issue. It also taps into latent, subconscious racism, which is what right-wing politicians would call a 'win-win.

Justin Simien

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.

Samuel R. Delany

#42. Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is yet to be seen.

Bennie Thompson

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.

Camille Paglia

#47. The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

Roger Bannister

#48. I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.

Dakota Johnson

#49. Which isn't, like, as bad as it sounds, because the general public kind of sucks ass.

Christopher Moore

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

Clay Shirky

#51. 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

#52. If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Christa McAuliffe

#53. The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.

Pete Wilson

#54. Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.

Noah Feldman

#55. The general public has failed to realize that the USA government has built a High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in most cities with the mass deployment of smart radio frequency transmitting utility meters.

Steven Magee

#56. Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

Fran Lebowitz

#57. 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

#58. Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all things intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in all things emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended.

Criss Jami

#59. Except with their life mate. I'd convinced myself those women possessed a secret love potion they weren't sharing with the general public - one that tamed the primitive ways of a Shifter and made them do romantic things like buy flowers and rub their woman's feet with scented oils.

Dannika Dark

#60. I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

George Lucas

#61. I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

George Lucas

#62. To understand the seriousness of abortion, one must know the physiology of human development. Ignorance of these facts is in part why mothers are willing to have an abortion and the general public allows abortions on demand.

John S. Feinberg

#63. Submit your brand to the general public. Your brand may be well made, but it has to be well known.

Israelmore Ayivor

#64. The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.

Noam Chomsky

#65. (...) there's a rule that no question affecting the general public may be finally decided until it has been debated for three days.

Thomas More

#66. The organized domestic terrorism of the general public is why many people regard the police as corrupt.

Steven Magee

#67. My dad was never one of those dads you could ask for a quarter if you saw a gumball machine. Instead he had one of those black American Express cards not available to general public. Gumball machines didn't have slots for those.

S.A. Bodeen

#68. There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an aversion, partially because of this, by executives of those companies whose activities require employing pilots.

Louise Thaden

#69. The USA legal system is designed to enrich lawyers, protect the government and corporations, and shaft the general public.

Steven Magee

#70. But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

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

Chris Elliott

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

William Delbert Gann

#73. The kind of system Kickstarter uses has been used for hundreds of years. Unlike Medici-style patronage, where the richest people in town give large amounts of money, Kickstarter's system relies on the general public for funding projects, and rewards those backers.

Perry Chen

#74. Since the reading skills of the American people are the lowest in the First World, the general public is always easy prey to manipulation by television.

Gore Vidal

#75. 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

#76. Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

Anthony Fauci

#77. I have created hours upon hours of different music over the years that the general public has never heard. Maybe one day I'll release them all in one big package, but we'll see.

Phil Anselmo

#78. 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

#79. But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

Joseph Rotblat

#80. Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.

Mel Ferrer

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

Anthony Fauci

#82. Never speak about private affairs for the general public to hear.

Habeeb Akande

#83. Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

Mike Lowry

#84. Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

Andrew Mellon

#85. It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.

Benjamin Graham

#86. 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

#87. And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.

Roy Barnes

#88. I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.

Rob Zombie

#89. Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live only in private clubs and at charity events, where she presumably believed the pressure on her was less intense.

Scott Stossel

#90. They were smart enough to know that handing out superpowers like sweets to the general public was never going to be a good idea.
Not that that stopped it from happening anyway.

Violet Cross

#91. In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

Michael Moore

#92. This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's visit to Israel)

Uri Orbach

#93. 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

#94. I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.

Yves Behar

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

Paul Krugman

#98. The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn't see unless you're at a film festival or you're into that kind of movie.

Hayden Panettiere

#99. After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.

Fay Godwin

#100. I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

John Lydon