Best Public Life Quotes
195 Public Life quotes by 164 unique authors
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I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI have earned every…
— Richard M. Nixon
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They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in…
— Plutarch
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Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.
— Albert Einstein
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I think where I've instinctively found myself is that I am somewhat guarded in my public life. Being interviewed or being photographed or just in…
— Annette Bening
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I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.
— Joe Mantegna
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I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers…
— Montgomery Clift
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So the controversy over Duck Dynasty sends a clear signal to anyone who has anything to risk in public life: Say nothing about the sinfulness…
— Albert Mohler
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The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.
— Laurie Penny
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And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are…
— Thomas Paine
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Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide,
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of…
— John F. Kennedy
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In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives is disappearing. It…
— Jan Gehl
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If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.
— Robertson Davies
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Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a…
— Adolf Hitler
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Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt),…
— John MacLachlan Gray
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There are many in public life who deserve only our praise and admiration. But there are too many who are products of a class that…
— Tim Soutphommasane
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In effective, sustained citizen action, people learn the skills of public life with which to act effectively. "Commons," or the common wealth-the public goods that…
— Harry Boyte
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My relationship with God through Christ has given me meaning and direction. My faith has made a big difference in my personal life, and my…
— George W. Bush
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Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
— Elmer Davis
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Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that…
— Frederick Scott Oliver
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The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called…
— Anthony Holden
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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most…
— Max Weber
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For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is…
— Edward Kennedy
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Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.
— Joseph Pulitzer
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