Famous quotes containing the words public, affairs and/or committee:
“What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“A scholar without going outside his door can know all the affairs of the world.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.”
—Katharine Whitehorn (b. 1926)