Affairs Quotes - page 2

This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished. (Benjamin Tucker)
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me' the State may be given up for lost. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs. View quote
Pliny the Elder
When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself. View quote
Shirley MacLaine
There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. View quote
Basil of Caesarea
But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe. View quote
Romano Prodi
Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress. (Dick Thornburgh)
When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life. View quote
Pythagoras
Our Party's Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Songun-based politics, is a revolutionary mode of leadership and socialist mode of politics that gives top priority to military affairs, and defends the country, the revolution and socialism and dynamically pushes ahead with overall socialist construction by dint of the revolutionary mettle and combat capabilities of the People's Army. View quote
Kim Jong-il
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life. View quote
John Tyler
I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day. View quote
Kevin Costner
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 their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically. View quote
Bobby Sands
The best love affairs are those we never had. View quote
Norman Lindsay
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs. View quote
Harold Macmillan
How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar! View quote
John Wain
The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it. (William O. Douglas)
So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy. View quote
Giovanni Boccaccio
With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
It is for the people of Asia to run the affairs of Asia, solve the problems of Asia and uphold the security of Asia. The people of Asia have the capability and wisdom to achieve peace and stability in the region through enhanced cooperation. View quote
Xi Jinping