Public Life Quotes - Page 10

• If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Thinking, People, Ifs

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• What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.

  Joseph Epstein

  Breathing Space, Aggravation, Absence

  Joseph Epstein (1979). “Familiar territory: observations on American life”, Oxford University Press

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• Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; the line between the two is becoming blurred.

  Paul Achleitner

  Two, People, Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I want to say to you is that James Madison and Thomas Jefferson did not intend to drive a stake in the heart of religion and to drive it out of our public life. What they intended to do was to set up a system so that we could bring religion into our public life and into our private life without any of us telling the other what to do.

  William J. Clinton

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  Clinton, William J. (1996). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1082, Best Books on

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• Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, People

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• Today religion is increasingly pushed aside by secularizing influences such as the university, the media, and politics. Rather than having a major voice in public life, religion has been relegated to the private and the personal.

  Paul Copan

  Christian, Religious, Media

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• The Supreme Court's 1947 decision which introduced the wall of separation between church and state 'has fueled a movement to sterilize anything in American public life from religion.'

  Mickey Edwards

  Christian, Religious, Wall

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• As humanism begins to dominate the state, the consequence is complete hostile annexation of the church or persecution by separation. Religion is then removed from the marketplace and the school, later from other domains of public life. The state will not toerlate any gods besides itself.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Christian, Religious, School

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• The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.

  Bruce L. Shelley

  Christian, Religious, Wall

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• Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because it was so clearly a religiously inspired movement that entered the public arena and made a major difference in American life.

  Bruce L. Shelley

  Christian, Religious, Biblical

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• The First Amendment is now being used by the secularists of our day as a cattle prod to herd conservative religious people out of the public life of the nation and into, as others have put it, a religious ghetto.

  Pat Swindall

  Christian, Religious, Ghetto

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• Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Family, Leadership, Wisdom

  "MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Offers Televised Apology for Romney Segment" by Erik Hayden, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 04, 2014.

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• Hilary Clinton's great sin was that she left the nicely wallpapered domestic sphere with a slam of the door, took up public life on her own, leaving big feminist footprints all over the place, and without so much as an apology.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Apology, Doors, Feminist

  Patricia J. Williams (1997). “The Rooster's Egg”

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• The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

  H. L. Mencken

  Lying, Way, Flattering

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

  Richard M. Nixon

  Mistake, Years, Want

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• I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult balance, because if you are elected to public office, people have a right to know a great deal about you, and the press has an absolute obligation to report all of that. But the reality is that there are times in which the reporting is really happening for almost voyeuristic reasons, in the gossip columns. Maybe half of it is wrong, and half of it is correct, and a lot of it is exaggerated. You've just got to get used to that if you're in public life.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Reality, Media, People

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• Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Hands, Greed

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.418, OUP Oxford

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• The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can be achieved by politics. The history of the last two centuries confirms what the framers of the Constitution understood: that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and the search for unalloyed virtue in public life leads to unalloyed terror.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Law, Two, Perfect

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• Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.

  Socrates

  Men, Should Have, Honorable Man

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• I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.

  Joseph Conrad

  Favoritism, Delicate, Foe

  Joseph Conrad (1937). “Conrad's Prefaces to His Works”, p.66, Ardent Media

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• Boris Nemtsov, left his mark on the history of Russia, in politics and public life. He worked on important positions in the difficult transition period for our country. He always openly and honestly stated his position, defended his point of view.

  Vladimir Putin

  Life, Country, Russia

  "Boris Nemtsov: Opposition figure who took on Vladimir Putin" by Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. February 28, 2015.

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• Once you capitulate to one dictator, does that mean that the next dictator or the next terrorist that says you're not going to make a comedy about - or a film at all about ISIS. All of us in public life have a responsibility right now to speak out and to say, 'No, Sony, you did the wrong thing' and to say to Hollywood, come behind - the other studios should come behind Sony and offer their support.

  Ed Royce

  Life, Mean, Responsibility

  "Washington outraged over Sony decision" by Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2014.

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• I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail.

  Daniel Pfeiffer

  Life, Thinking, Challenges

  "Which 'Wire' character reminds Obama adviser of Jeb Bush?" by Ashley Killough, www.cnn.com. December 30, 2014.

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• It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  People, Cynical, Political

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• However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms.

  Mike Pence

  Long, Liberty, Arms

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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