Pastoral Resources

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

My art became very public.

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.

I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.

The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.

I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and should insurrection break out the protection of life and property would be more safe guarded by our company of regulars, than by the whole City.

It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so.

Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.