Best Public Affairs Quotes

48 Public Affairs quotes by 40 unique authors

My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go… — Benjamin Franklin
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. — Walter Savage Landor
Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't… — David Frum
I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. — Helen Gahagan Douglas
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment. — Hugo Black
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something… — E. M. Forster
It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't… — Golda Meir
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It… — Thomas Jefferson
It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the… — Daniel Webster
I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for… — Stephen King
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality… — Iain Pears
We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if… — David Hume
I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and… — Helen Gahagan Douglas
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. — Benjamin Franklin
No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs. — Mohammad Hamid Ansari
I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame — John Adams
We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs not as harmless but as a useless character. — Pericles
In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and… — Ivan Reitman
But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs. — Christy Romano
The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. — Plato

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