Top 48 Public Enemy Sayings
#1. Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.
Chuck D
#2. I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous Teachers and all these people who were spitting a lot of knowledge, a lot of history, questioning a lot of societal barriers was starting to be super popular.
Ice Cube
#3. Like any family, like any group - the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy - they've had bumps in the road. I just think that because A Tribe Called Quest is so precious to fans, they were concerned about unveiling some of those things.
Michael Rapaport
#4. I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.
Mayer Hawthorne
#6. I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the ... they created their whole own world of music.
Rick Rubin
#7. We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.
Flavor Flav
#8. Some references are more important than others. Like the metal stuff. Some people like Motley Crue and some people didn't listen to them at all. So that's why there's New Order and The New Replacements and David Bowie and Public Enemy.
Steve Pink
#9. I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.
Chuck D
#10. Public enemy number one for these men was a girl with a book
Miriam Toews
#11. I listen to a variety of stuff on my iPod: Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Public Enemy, Foo Fighters, anything that gets my adrenalin flowing.
Chris Hoy
#12. Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.
William Congreve
#13. I thought of myself as a revolutionary, committed to overturning the whole system of empire.1 BILL AYERS, PUBLIC ENEMY
Dinesh D'Souza
#14. I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In apartheid South Africa he was public enemy number one. Shrouded in secrecy, myth and rumour, the media called him 'The Black Pimpernel'.
Kumi Naidoo
#15. I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
Pat Morita
#16. He (Logan) was public enemy number one, and he was okay with that.
It felt good to be himself.
Sam Crescent
#17. If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Madonna. Prince. Bruce Springsteen. Fleetwood Mac. David Bowie. Public Enemy. Nirvana.
Moby
#18. I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.
Chuck D
#19. The Fed is the biggest enemy of this economy. In fact, Ben Bernanke, as far as I'm concerned, he's public enemy No. 1. We're never going to have a recovery while this guy's in charge.
Peter Schiff
#20. People forget how dominant Public Enemy became in the mid '80s. No one talks about how transformative they were. And then that led to the '90s and the sort of East Coast v. West Coast stuff, which is kinda when I came of age.
Marco Rubio
#21. Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.
Michael Moore
#22. Queen Latifah used to help me out with my kids, because while we were all out on tour - Public Enemy, Naughty By Nature, Queen Latifah, Heavy D - when Public Enemy went onstage, I didn't have anybody solid to watch my kids. So, Latifah would help me out.
Flavor Flav
#23. I always took quite seriously the things that Chuck D. of Public Enemy had to say. He's always been someone I've learned quite a bit from and someone I pay a great deal of attention to.
Henry Rollins
#24. Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.
Francis Parker Yockey
#25. In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.
Hedda Hopper
#26. I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.
Joaquin Phoenix
#27. I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.
Noel Gallagher
#28. If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.'
Flavor Flav
#29. I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.
Norman Foster
#30. Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.
Janelle Monae
#31. The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
Dalton Trumbo
#32. The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety.
Steven Magee
#33. The United States is like one big jail for Black people, because we're locked into a mentality and a mindset that limits our potential. It has us against us.
Chuck D
#34. 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
#35. Impulsive enjoyment of life, which leads away both from work in a calling and from religion, was as such the enemy of rational asceticism, whether in the form of seigneurial sports, or the enjoyment of the dance-hall or the public - house of the common man.
Max Weber
#36. 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
#37. Sound public finances are not the enemy of sustained growth - they are its precondition.
George Osborne
#38. The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'
Jonathan Kozol
#39. Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.
Mark Twain
#40. One less desirable aspect of democracy is that it seems to require serious demonization of the enemy if the nation and public opinion are to be galvanized sufficiently to pay a serious price in blood or treasure at war.
Graham E. Fuller
#41. The battle for public support for the wars was played out through a combination of the liberal 'feminist' discourse of rights and the hawkish premise that only carpet-bombing the oppressive enemy could solve the problem.
Nina Power
#42. 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
#43. I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception.
George Galloway
#44. I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man
public opinion.
Clarence Darrow
#45. The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
John Keats
#46. 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
#47. Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.
Brooks Atkinson
#48. 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
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