Public Life Quotes - Page 11

Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.

Robert E. Lee

Men, Two, Quality

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In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting - all these will be used as a means to this end.

Adolf Hitler

Educational, Mean, Government

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The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity, to ensure all people have the means to a decent livelihood.

Peter Garrett

Motivation, Mean, Opportunity

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In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

Paul Keating

Leadership, Keys, People

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You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

Graeme Samuel

Leadership, Business, Integrity

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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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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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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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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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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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It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

Stockwell Day

Prayer, Political, Would Be

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It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.

Brian May

Rocks, Champion, Normal

"Queen's Brian May Rocks Out To Physics, Photography". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 3, 2010.

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I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thinking, Names

Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.

Abigail McCarthy

Eye, People, Humanity

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When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we'd hear from time to time, that every man who runs for public office will claim that he was born in a log cabin he built with his own hands. Well, my mother knew better. And she made sure I did too.

William J. Clinton

Mother, Running, Men

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But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely said at the beginning that Jewish influence was too great, that of all the lawyers in Berlin, eighty percent were Jewish. Hitler thought that a small percentage of the people, the Jews, should not be allowed to control the theater, cinema, radio, et cetera.

Franz von Papen

People, Stressed, Cinema

Said to Leon Goldensohn, March 30, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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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 really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

Kevin Cramer

Ministry, Vocation, Plumber

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advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

Mary Frances Berry

Mother, Children, Opportunity

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There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Loneliness, Ill, Whips

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The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private and public, life and art, writer and reader. To read Elbe's poems is to discover not only what it means to be in love, but what it means to be alive.

Jesse Lee Kercheval

Art, Mean, Alive

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A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Power, Men, Personality

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American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.

Chester Himes

Thinking, Numbers, Black

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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

Natasha Lyonne

Epic, Relief, Way

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During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

George W. Norris

War, Agreement, Civilized Nations

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