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Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. -- William Westmoreland
You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you. -- Brian Mulroney
Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft. -- Benjamin Whorf
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. -- Leo Burnett
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. -- William Westmoreland
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. -- Thomas L. Smith
I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind. -- Jenny Shipley
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze. -- James Nathan Miller
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. -- James Madison
Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech. -- James L. Buckley
It is important that the decorum and dignity of the House is upheld at all times. The image of Parliament in the public mind should be one where proceedings, debates and discussions take place with a view to resolve issues through a constructive and co-operative approach. -- Pratibha Patil
Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South. -- Abraham Lincoln
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind -- Gen William C. Westmoreland
Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft. -- Benjamin Whorf
First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience. -- Eleanora Duse
I didn't mind being a public executioner, once I got the hang of it. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures. -- John Bercow
In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue. -- Michael Bennet
National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques. -- Bryant H. McGill
The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it. -- Marilyn Monroe
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. -- Leo Burnett
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief -- Leo Burnett
News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind. -- Sam Donaldson
The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy. -- Hugh Kingsmill
Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas. -- Mitch Horowitz
Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display. -- Saul Gorn
I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed. -- Bernard Beckett
It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures. -- Robert Bourassa
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. -- Edmund Burke
I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good. -- Branch Rickey
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. -- Margaret Fuller
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind -- Gen William C. Westmoreland
Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer. -- John Ruskin
Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic. -- Edmund Burke
Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth. -- Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda. -- Charles E. Bohlen
When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren't the kind of institutions I had in mind. -- Robert Stacy McCain
It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency. -- Emma Goldman
It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public. -- Maya Lin
There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind. -- Robert Bork
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mind, I've developed a thick skin. -- James Franco
There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons. -- Max Tundra
The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind. -- Barry Diller
Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that. -- Pete Waterman
The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind. -- Fannie Hurst
Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth. -- David Carr
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. -- Allen Ginsberg
I paint and I sculpt and I enjoy doing things that aren't for the public. There's no pressure to it, it's just something that's a cleansing of the mind. -- Taylor Momsen
Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate. -- Lydia M. Child
By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will. -- Adam Weishaupt
All space must be attached to a value, to a public dimension. There is no private space. The only private space that you can imagine is the human mind. -- Paulo Mendes da Rocha
In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws. -- Agatha Christie
It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should expect mind altered behaviour from the public. -- Steve Fowler
Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind. -- Hyman Rickover
I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing. -- Norman Mailer
The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history. -- Thomas Campbell
Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in life and cannot collapse otherwise than in great catastrophe... -- Ludwig von Mises
Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it. -- Will Rogers
Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret itself fairly and eloquently to changing opinion. -- Edward Bernays
Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind. -- Henry Ford
The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations. -- George Bernard Shaw
We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind. -- Edward Bernays
Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiteracy of the mass of men and the conceit and intellectual indolence of rulers and those who feed the public mind. -- H. G. Wells

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