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• Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

  Elmer Davis

  Government, Average, Voters

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• Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.

  Frederick Scott Oliver

  Mean, Men, Political

  Frederick Scott Oliver (1934). “Politics and politicians”

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• The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.

  Anthony Holden

  Retirement, Princess, Years

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• The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.

  Max Weber

  Art, Philosophy, Fate

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.155, Routledge

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• For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

  Edward Kennedy

  Believe, Journey, Justice For All

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Publicity, Moral, Public Speaking

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• Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in.

  Edward Bernays

  Freedom, Men, Ideas

  "Propaganda".

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• Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

  Ashley Judd

  Husband, Giving, Left Alone

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• When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO NOT DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD NOT LIKE DONE TO YOURSELF: so there will be no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family; your public life will arouse no ill-will nor your private life any resentment.

  Confucius

  Life, Country, Ill Will

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• This is a sad day for all of us, and to none is it sadder than to me. Everything that I have worked for, everything that I have hoped for, everything that I have believed in during my public life, has crashed into ruins. There is only one thing left for me to do; that is, to devote what strength and powers I have to forwarding the victory of the cause for which we have to sacrifice so much... I trust I may live to see the day when Hitlerism has been destroyed and a liberated Europe has been re-established.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Sacrifice, Europe, Victory

  Neville Chamberlain's Speech in the House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. September 3, 1939.

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• When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

  Pope Pius XI

  God, Christian, Jesus

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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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• Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Winning, May, Today

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.38, Wordsworth Editions

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• One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is in step with the current Zeitgeist.

  John MacLachlan Gray

  Bulls, Steps, Zeitgeist

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• The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

  P. T. Barnum

  Eye, Men, Wool

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• I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Thinking, House Of Cards, Iron

  W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Plays Volume One”, p.171, Random House

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• The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

  Karl Kraus

  Funny, Clever, Stupid

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• Obviously we don't have 300 million people. We haven't got a big army. We don't have Hollywood. We're a medium small-sized country. We have to do what medium small-sized countries do, which-even though we're not smarter than other people-is to make ourselves seem to be smarter. We have to work harder and know more than other people.

  John Ralston Saul

  Country, Hard Work, Army

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• It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Parliament, Honorable, Persist

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.700, Library of America

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• To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

  Aristophanes

  Lying, Climbing, Essentials

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• A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Society, Faults

  "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby". Book by Charles Dickens, Ch. 14, 1838 - 1839.

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• In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Successful, Order, People

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• To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Insult, Praise, Virtue

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• On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

  Martin Sheen

  Vegetables, People, Trying

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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