“A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave”
“What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.”
“I'm a public sinner with a ton of money. Any church would want me.”
“So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.”
“There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.”
“We proceed in this society of ours on the possibly valid but untrue assumption that the public knows what it wants-- indeed, that it is given sufficient information about what is available to make such a judgment. And then we jump, irresponsibly and absurdly, to the notion that there is a valid relationship between what the public wants and what it should want.”