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Showing posts with label Public Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Public Quotes. Show all posts
You don't have power if you su...
You don't have power if you surrender all your principles -- you have office.
Wonderful ''Force of Public Op...
Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of ''influence'' it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?
Where mass opinion dominates t...
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.
When you give power to an exec...
When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
We would not listen to those w...
We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.
We say that someone occupies a...
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
We must live for the few who k...
We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.
They look for a victim to chiv...
They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.
The world will only, in the en...
The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
The public! the public! How ma...
The public! the public! How many fools does it take to make up a public?
The more you stay in this kind...
The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
The English public, as a mass,...
The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
The basic idea which runs righ...
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.
The approval of the public is ...
The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.
The approval of the public is ...
The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.
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