Public Affairs Quotes
48 quotes by 40 authors
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession…
— Conrad Black
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The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them, and…
— James Madison
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Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to determine…
— Samuel Adams
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Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity
— Ron Silver
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We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
— Thucydides
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In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight.
— Woodrow Wilson
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
— Plato
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This is a great country and requires a good deal of all of us, so I can imagine nothing more important than for all of…
— John F. Kennedy
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It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of decorum and in…
— Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul
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Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic…
— Noam Chomsky
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And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only…
— Lawrence Lessig
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That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though…
— Herbert Spencer
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
— E. M. Forster
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In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed…
— John Tyler
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I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.
— Lucien Bouchard
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We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he…
— Pericles
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
— Harold MacMillan
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Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.
— Tony Snow
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An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are engaged in business…
— Pericles
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