Private Quotes

2742 quotes by 1926 authors

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. — Henry Ward Beecher
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy… — Virginia Woolf
Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most… — Peter McWilliams
Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity… — Emile M. Cioran
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy,… — Oscar Wilde
The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott… — Cesar Chavez
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate. — George Santayana
For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity,… — Ronald Reagan
Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all,… — Mark Twain
Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to… — Samuel Adams
[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the especial duty of… — Joseph Story
Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances. — Mark Twain
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And… — Thomas Jefferson
The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of… — William Hazlitt
Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their… — Thomas Jefferson
Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The… — Karl Marx
Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something. — Ken Robinson
Personally, I liked working for the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn't have to produce anything. You've never been out of college.… — Dan Aykroyd

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