“The effect of modern war is to eliminate retrogressive types, while sparing the technocracy and increasing its hold upon public affairs.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
“There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
As the chief public affairs officer at MoveOn and an MSNBC political analyst, you can often find me talking in front of… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
“Adults are not supposed to play. We are supposed to stress, have worries and be too busy dealing with life's problems. But… — Meik Wiking Copy Share Image
The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
We have continued to advance our global ambition with acquisitions that fill in the global footprint, such as Dabo in Dubai on… — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
“He was a descendant from the younger branch of an illustrious family, and it was designed, that the deficiency of his patrimonial… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are… — Pericles Copy Share Image
And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson's Letter to John Holmes on the Missouri Statehood Question – April 20, 1820 I thank you, dear Sir, for the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Every man waits his destined hour; even the cities are doomed to their fate. Let us spend our leisure with our books,… — Poggio Bracciolini Copy Share Image
“There is hardly any political question in the United States that sooner or later does not turn into a judicial question. From… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The masses, on admitting their own incapacity to govern themselves, have elected me as their head By doing so, they have clearly… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, the more and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“A good citizen must follow the movement of public affairs, so as to cast his vote intelligently, and know whether the party… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Interest yourself in public affairs as a duty of citizenship, but do not surrender your faith to those who discredit and debase… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
But the frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone.… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case;… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Periclean Greeks employed the term idiotis , without any connotation of stupidity or subnormality, to mean simply 'a person indifferent to public… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“In my Toyota interviews, when I asked what distinguishes the Toyota Way from other management approaches, the most common first response was… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“man! Can you believe they actually allow this stuff to be sold over there? Glad we got laws against that crap in… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
