Public Life Quotes - Page 3

• I try to protect my loved ones, the people I share my life with, because they don't have a public life like me. I want to keep their lives private out of respect for them.

  Georges St-Pierre

  People, Trying, Want

  "Georges St-Pierre reveals his personal, philosophical side in new book". Interview with Loretta Hunt, www.si.com. April 24, 2013.

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• That's good advice for any young person to remember who aspires to leadership in corporate or public life. Develop a thick skin when it comes to the press. Remember you're never as bad-or as good-as the press says you are.

  William Schreyer

  Remember You, Remembers You, Advice

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• Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas.

  Adolf Hitler

  Ideas, World, Demand

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• You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.

  John Diefenbaker

  Canada, Bananas, Parliament

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• William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth ... he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life... To forget such men is foolish.

  J. I. Packer

  Blessed, Men, Evil

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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 would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.

  Vince McMahon

  Long, Enough, Dare

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• Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice in public life is considered impractical, even naive. This is tragic.

  Dalai Lama

  Home, Compassion, Practice

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women’s movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.

  Christine Pelosi

  Running, Hard Work, Color

  "Feminists Must Advance Immigrants’ Rights as Women’s Rights" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.

  Stockwell Day

  Real, People, Intolerance

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• It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.

  Adam Clarke

  Memorial, Degrees, Fame

  Adam Clarke, Mrs. Richard Smith (1833). “An Account of the Infancy, Religious, and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by One who was Intimately Acquainted with Him from His Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age”, p.18

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• In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. The word citizen has to do with cities, and the ideal city is organized around citizenship -- around participation in public life.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Sleep, Cities, Shoes

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.136, Penguin

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• I've always thought that there shouldn't be any limit to the things that are well designed. And I think that people who consider that art should only be kept for art galleries and doesn't have a role in public life, I think that's too narrow.

  Ken Done

  Art, Thinking, People

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• There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Achievement, Progress

  Response to letter sent by Theodate Johnson on September 13, 1960. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: The Arts", www.jfklibrary.org.

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• Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.

  Jane Jacobs

  Small Changes, Cities, Wealth

  "The Death and Life of Great American Cities".

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• Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.

  Michael Sandel

  Mean, Egalitarianism, Ideas

  "'Whether we are arguing about MPs' expenses or assisted suicide, we need to engage with the moral ideals underlying our political debates'". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Thinking, People

  "Dr. King Weeps From His Grave". www.nytimes.com. August 25, 2011.

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• A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

  John F. Kennedy

  Leadership, Courage, Patriotic

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• The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Gratitude, Art, Acceptance

  Reader's Digest, December 1954.

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• If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Running, Discovery, Things In Life

  Charles Krauthammer (1985). “Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties”, Random House (NY)

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