Quote by John Keats
The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and

The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility. – John Keats

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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. – John Keats

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I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman — they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence. – John Keats

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Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory! – John Keats

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The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd. – Noam Chomsky

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A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. – Abraham Lincoln

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The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties. – H. L. Mencken

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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. – Johann von Goethe

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