Private Quotes

2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as… — Karl Marx
Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or… — Karl Marx
For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all… — Felix Frankfurter
Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. — George Steiner
The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn… — George Steiner
I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll be a whole… — David Byrne
When it comes to the environment and global warming from emissions, it has to be dealt with in one of two ways - preemptive regulations,… — Ron Paul
I grew up in Pittsburgh, where you couldn't even see the noon sun in the sky, and that whole city was cleaned up without the… — Ron Paul
I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a… — Michael J. Fox
Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private… — Thomas Frank
Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why… — Thomas Frank
Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is… — Thomas Frank
I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It's just hard to get comfortable with Gore - it was hard for him to project who… — Al Franken
The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The… — Al Franken
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. — Milton Friedman
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life… — Margaret Fuller
My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective. — Lady Gaga
Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able… — Lady Gaga
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts? — Mahatma Gandhi
There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can… — Greta Garbo
I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private… — Teri Garr
Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. — Bill Gates
You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal… — Haile Gebrselassie
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. — Newt Gingrich

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