Public Enemies Quotes

#1. TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?

Edward Bellamy

#3. I've read the 'Public Enemies' script and, no, it's not 100 percent historically accurate. But it's by far the closest thing to fact Hollywood has attempted, and for that, I am both excited and quietly relieved.

Bryan Burrough

#4. The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Abraham Lincoln

#5. Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

Mark Twain

#6. The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

Dalton Trumbo

#7. Everybody has a finite amount of energy and limits to what he or she can do. Listen to your body. It will talk to you if you're willing to listen.

Phyllis George

#8. Never express anger with a friend or a subordinate in public," Vedris always said. "They might forgive a private expression of anger or a deserved scolding, but they never forget a public humiliation. It is the surest way to destroy a friendship and to create enemies.

Tamora Pierce

#9. I'm happy - I moved into my new house, which is the first time I've owned a home on my own. It's a big step, and my brother lives with me - I'm so happy about that.

Khloe Kardashian

#10. Learn to destroy your enemies by opening holes in their own reputations. Then stand aside and let public opinion hang them.

Robert Greene

#11. I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not freedom. Thus it seldom causes any public indignation when an enterprising tyrant claps down on one of his enemies. To most men it seems a natural proceeding.

H.L. Mencken

#12. By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame - we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi taught us how to go beyond thinking and action in order to grow from within.

Mike Love

#13. Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.

Martin Buber

#14. Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don't find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed.

Jacques Verges

#15. God couldn't possibly love my father and hate my mother, or vice versa; that God was bigger than our ideas about him and greater than any name we might call him. p. 6

Roland Merullo

#16. Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent some, for the simple purpose of rationalizing their existence ...

Laurance Labadie

#17. Experience isn't a place; it's a focus of attention. You can live there, at the still point around which everything revolves.

Deepak Chopra

#18. The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

Phaedrus

#19. My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste.

Betty Parsons

#20. As he gazed at the sun-darkened warriors, battle-worn before him, he decided that he would rather fight a hundred enemies than have to stand up in public and risk the disapproval of others.

Christopher Paolini

#21. One of the most devastating enemies of the family is radical sex education in the public school. It is more explicit than necessary for the good of the child. Too much sex education too soon causes undue curiosity and obsession with sex.

Beverly LaHaye

#22. I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception.

George Galloway

#23. Every word you add dilutes the sentence.

Miller Williams

#24. Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

James Madison

#25. How, Yusef wondered, can two men joke like that and tomorrow be enemies. Perhaps they'd been enemies yesterday. He decided public servants weren't human.

Thomas Pynchon

#26. Christmas without a murder plot is like a day without giant spiders eaten orphans" (quote on my special gift holiday mugs)

Roma Gray

#27. My dad never had a bank balance of more than three lakh and was always extremely compassionate towards his producers.

Suriya

#28. No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.

H.L. Mencken

#29. Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.

Chanakya

#30. They're all about where people come from. The only thing important is where somebody's going.

Johnny Depp