Famous quotes containing the words public and/or authority:
“A candidate once called his opponent “a willful, obstinate, unsavory, obnoxious, pusillanimous, pestilential, pernicious, and perversable liar” without pausing for breath, and even his enemies removed their hats.”
—Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.”
—Michel Foucault (1926–1984)