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
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
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
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
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
“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
We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics. — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. — Plato Copy Share Image
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
“As far as the people in NASA’s public affairs office were concerned, there was entirely too much conversation about balls and urine… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California,… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the… — Hugo Black 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
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
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
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
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
My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest;… — Benjamin Franklin 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
“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
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
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
A lot of our fellow liberals ... seem to me rather to doom themselves to futility in public affairs because the won't… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
“To narrow natural rights to such neat slogans as "liberty, equality, fraternity" or "life, liberty, property," . . . was to ignore… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit… — Daniel Webster 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
“Modern civilization seems to be incapable of producing people endowed with imagination, intelligence, and courage. In practically every country there is a… — Alexis Carrel 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
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
“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
“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
