Public Life Quotes - Page 5

• We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Space, Citizens, Politician

  "Democracy should be exercised regularly, on foot" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2006.

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• Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us in line. Private lives are lived out in the presence of family, friends, and neighbors who must be considered and respected even though the rules and proscriptions are looser than what's allowed in public. But in our secret lives, inside our own heads, almost anything goes.

  Robert Fulghum

  Jobs, Law, Secret

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• I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Years, Justice, Cents

  Speech at press conference, 17 November 1973, in 'New York Times' 18 November 1973, p. 62

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• My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

  Joseph Howe

  Believe, Solitude, Life Is

  Joseph Howe (1858). “Speeches and Public Letters”, p.69

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• Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence.... If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity! If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity... Let us all, therefore, very secretly be 'fifth columnists.'

  John Rawlings Rees

  Family, Thinking, Ideas

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• I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

  Gene Robinson

  Long, Roles, Intrigued

  "Retired Bishop Gene Robinson On Being Gay And Loving God". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 10, 2013.

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• I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

  Charles Van Doren

  Teaching, Writing, Afterlife

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• Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.

  Lauren Beukes

  Secret, Three, Private Life

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• A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.

  Michael Sandel

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• I think some people who go into public life, if they go in needing the applause of thousands, they're never going to work out successfully in the end, because they don't know who they are apart from the crowds.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Thinking, People, Work Out

  "Lessons of Presidential Leadership". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Life, Inspire, Stills

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• The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Secret, Purpose

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.10, A&C Black

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• America was founded on prayer. Therefore, the removal of prayer from its public life was a central part of its fall from God. A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.

  Jonathan Cahn

  Prayer, Fall, America

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• Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.

  Confucius

  Relationship, Forgiveness, Faith

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• The ruling quality of leaders adaptive capacity, is what allows true leaders to make the nimble decisions that bring success. Adaptive capacity is also what allows some people to transcend the setbacks and losses that come with age and to reinvent themselves again and again.

  Warren G

  Loss, People, Decision

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• I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life

  Hillary Clinton

  Life, Husband, Women

  Campaign remarks, Chicago, Ill., 16 Mar. 1992

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• Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Years, Two

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2608, Manonmani Publishers

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• Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Clever, Secret, Three

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Nov 02, 2011

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• When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Giving, Interesting, Want

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• I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance of it shall never be a crime in my view, nor bring injury on the individual. I never will by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance. I never had an opinion in politics or religion which I was afraid to own; a reserve on these subjects might have procured me more esteem from some people, but less from myself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Views, People

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• When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be gained, he may say to them, not by subtlety and intrigue; not by wire pulling and demagoguery; not by the arts of popularity; not by skill and shiftiness in following expediency; but by being firm in devotion to the principles of manhood and the application of morals and the courage of righteousness in the public life of our country; by being a man without guile and without fear, without selfishness, and with devotion to duty, devotion to his country.

  Elihu Root

  Country, Teacher, Courage

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• Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person's obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic exceed his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic. This discrepancy is common in public life, where people are frequently impelled-whether by their own propensities or by the demands of others - to speak extensively about matters of which they are to some degree ignorant.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Honesty, Opportunity, Talking

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• Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.

  Frank Press

  Life, Science, Government

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• I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Integrity, Men, Morality

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.239, Algora Publishing

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• I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Integrity, Men, Quality

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.132, Rowman & Littlefield

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