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2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

Modern value-neutral society (Gesellschaft rather than Gemeinschaft) is systematized predation tempered not by conscience or values but rather merely by a system of law, which… — Kenny Smith
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we wait for the entertainment industry to change its fundamental values, we may be waiting a long time. But we don't have to wait… — Michael Medved
The way to maximize production is to maximize the incentives to production. And the way to do that, as the modern world has discovered, is… — Henry Hazlitt
By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the… — Milton Friedman
People who intend only to serve public interest are led by invisible hand to private interest which was no part of their intention. — Milton Friedman
If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the… — John Maynard Keynes
Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero. — Monica Lewinsky
To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private… — Donna Freitas
Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but… — Rebecca West
In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the… — Burt Rutan
If you descend into somebody else's private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell. — Mychal Judge
I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners. — Wilbur Ross
Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit, the… — Norman Bethune
I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private,… — Tim Burton
Morphlabs is excited about the OpenStack release of Essex. We believe that this release positions OpenStack to become the foundation for next generation dynamic cloud… — Winston Damarillo
The belief that life was hard and often its worst battles were fought in private, that it was possible to walk through fear and come… — Gail Caldwell
At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which… — Milan Kundera
The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes. — Leland Ryken
I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share… — Georges St-Pierre
I try to protect my loved ones, the people I share my life with, because they don't have a public life like me. I want… — Georges St-Pierre
Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and… — Anthony de Jasay
The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to… — David Herbert Donald
Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the… — Cynthia McKinney
Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however,… — Chris Hedges

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