Their Own Affairs Quotes
16 quotes by 12 authors
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control…
— Bobby Sands
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You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.
— Willis Lamb
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess…
— Baltasar Gracian
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When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful…
— Richard M. Nixon
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How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A…
— John Muir
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
— Walter Lippmann
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It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to their…
— Kristin Cashore
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Isn't is lovely to be all together again?" Raffin said, throwing one arm around Po and the other around Bann. -------- She wanted them near,…
— Kristin Cashore
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Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they…
— Lord Melbourne
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You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.You never find friends them following your…
— Willis Lamb
Who Wrote These Their Own Affairs Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 16 Their Own Affairs Quotes as follows: