Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

The notion of getting the general public into low-Earth orbit I don't think is far-fetched at all.

Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.