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Public Quotes by Will Self
- There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
- Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.
- If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools,…
- What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the…
More Public Quotes
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility… — Banksy
- Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and… — Neal Barnard
- Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson
- Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are… — Immanuel Kant
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson