This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.
We’re not trying to entertain the critics… I’ll take my chances with the public.
There are no private lives. This is what Nixon found out. Course he engineered it himself, with the tapes. This a most important aspect of modern life. As a science-fiction writer, dealing with the future, I want to speak to this. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. That we must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public.
The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
The Public; a thing I cannot help looking upon as an Enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of Hostility
The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up.
The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.
The fact is that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.
If you want to be elected to any public office, you have to be sold—you have to be merchandised.
