Anxious Quote by Edmund Burke

“It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”

— Edmund Burke

Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned and derided.

— James B. Weaver

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

— Matthew Henry

Such an error, one finds, to do things for the best. They usually seem to be such unpleasant things.

— Gladys Mitchell

Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.

— David Mitchell

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

— Harry Browne

It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense…

— Alexander Hamilton

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

— Sara Jeannette Duncan

“Some people make it extremely difficult to continue believing that complaining is not one of the basic human needs.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In every generation there have been matters which the general public is irresistibly tempted to ignore, partly through actual lack of information, but far…

— G. G. Coulton

Some people are in the habit of complaining about everything; even about the noise made by opportunity that knocks on the door.

— Vikrant Parsai

“the usual looters’ slogan of ‘public welfare,”

— Ayn Rand