Private Affair Quotes

#1. Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

John Carroll

#2. It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.

Vincent Bugliosi

#3. Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

E. M. Forster

#4. The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

Dan Millman

#6. Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience.

John C. Portman Jr.

#7. Biblical righteousness is more than a private and personal affair; it includes social righteousness as well ... Thus Christians are committed to hunger for righteousness in the whole human community as something pleasing to a righteous God.

John Stott

#8. I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

John F. Kennedy

#9. I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.

Leverett Saltonstall

#10. In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

David Herbert Donald

#11. It is the sex of the novels and not that of their authors that must interest us. All great novels, all true novels are bisexual. This is to say that they express both a feminine and a masculine vision of the world. The sex of the authors as physical people is their private affair.

Milan Kundera

#12. To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

C.S. Lewis

#13. Our lifestyle is not our private affair. We dare not allow each person to do what is right in his or her own eyes. The Gospel demands more of us: it is obligatory upon us to help one another hammer out the shape of Christian simplicity in the midst of modern affluence.

Richard J. Foster

#14. A kid thinks her mother is just that
hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#15. To be cured, we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another - it is a private affair which is best done collectively. We must die as egos and be born again in the swarm, not separated and self-hypnotized, but individual and related.

Henry Miller

#16. Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

James A. Baldwin

#17. Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Rosalind Russell

#18. The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

Herbert Hoover

#19. A poet's function . . . is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others.

Ryan Holiday

#20. Religion may be a private affair, but the woik and word of God are the reconciliation of the world with God, as it was performed in Jesus Christ.

Karl Barth

#21. The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as repeatable as necessary. (In fact, repetition was encouraged on the theory that, oh well, everyone pretty much sinned just about all the time.)

Thomas Cahill

#22. I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.

Tom Hornbein