Private Quotes - page 3

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. (George Washington)
The dog, to gain his private ends, Went mad, and bit the man. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Good government is the outcome of private virtue. View quote
John Jay Chapman
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams. View quote
Joseph Campbell
It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
What is public opinion? It is private indolence. View quote
Georg Brandes
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion. View quote
Neil Kinnock
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. View quote
Penn Jillette
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual. (Maximilien Robespierre)
If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built. View quote
Vitruvius
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
In conditions of private property ... "life-activity” stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time. View quote
Sydney Smith
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. View quote
Carroll Quigley
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him, either. View quote
Sophocles
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Every man's memory is his private literature. (Aldous Huxley)
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects. View quote
Andrew Johnson
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. View quote
Gerald Ford
I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public. View quote
Nina Dobrev
The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights. View quote
Rene Cassin