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 public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.
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.
Doing something with the public in mind is doing something without your own mind.
