I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. — Plato Copy Share Image
But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs. — Christy Romano Copy Share Image
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs not as harmless but as a useless character. — Pericles Copy Share Image
'Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television. — David Shuster Copy Share Image
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a… — David Frum Copy Share Image
With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame — John Adams Copy Share Image
In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
This is a great country and requires a good deal of all of us, so I can imagine nothing more important than… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, judges and governors shall… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Edelman diversified into public affairs in the late '60s with important programs for the Concorde SST, gaining landing rights at JFK Airport… — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In a little while it was taken up in the streets and along the countryside. All through the North and in some… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
“The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest parties of the Continental nation-states; citizens with… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“We debate sometimes what is to be the future of this nation when we think that in a few years public affairs… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
“Why, how can you ask such a question? You are a republican." A republican! Yes; but that word specifies nothing. Res publica;… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
“If I were to name the one crying evil of American life, Mr. Derrick, it would be the indifference of the better… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
“Because in [Lenin's] eyes the workers were only workers and not also customers, he believed they were already slaves under capitalism, and… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
The private citizen today has come to feel rather like a deaf spectator in the back row, who ought to keep his… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Totalitarianism is the result of the hypostasis of the political and the correlative lowering of life as well as the individual. This… — Michel Henry Copy Share Image
No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs. — Mohammad Hamid Ansari Copy Share Image
Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of… — Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul Copy Share Image
We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business.… — Pericles Copy Share Image
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
I've been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren't many things I see that… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image