Private Sphere Quotes

#1. At some point, the government expands into the private sphere so far that you live in a place with a whole lot less freedom. I didn't like that that was the direction of travel for our country, and decided to come to Washington to try and be a small part of bringing it back.

Mike Pompeo

#2. We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#3. We need new proactive policies that focus directly on how authorities in the public and private sphere can blend economic and social policies with an enabling environment for private initiative to create market opportunities for Decent Work.

Juan Somavia

#4. Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God, individually and in community, as our consciences dictate. But religious liberty, by its nature, transcends places of worship and the private sphere of individuals and families.

Pope Francis

#5. Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

Terry Eagleton

#6. Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family law and women's access to resources and mobility. And often secular groups traded this for economic incentives and trade.

Zainab Salbi

#7. Freedom is won by relegating religion to a purely private sphere remote from the body politic. In fact, the establishment of a free society is predicated on the idea that religion must be surgically removed from culture.

William Anthony Donohue

#8. Religion has moved out of the private space. ( ... ) The moment it moves into the public sphere it becomes everybody's business.

Salman Rushdie

#9. There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. We must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public.

Philip K. Dick

#10. On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing this college show, and no one had actually really been, and it was so bizarre to me.

Carla Gallo

#11. Love for books,love for wisdom.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Arguing face to face can be a powerful thing, and done deftly and persistently, it can reinforce and build respect itself, even across major differences.

Anthony Weston

#13. I wish with all my heart that every child could be so imbued with a sense of the adventure of life that each change, each readjustment, each surprise
good or bad
that came along would be welcomed as part of the whole enthralling experience.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#14. No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.

A.J. Muste

#15. Friendship improves happiness, abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

John

#16. They are both stances of "disbelief," but mere cynicism is negative, a withdrawal from politics into private tranquility, while "kynicism" is openly antagonistic, a radically engaged reaction to the collapse of meaningful options within the public sphere.

Drew Daniel

#17. Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

David Mitchell

#18. [There is a] strong correlation between market freedom and lower government corruption
not terribly surprising, since the effect of increasing regulatory power is to shift 'cheating' from the private to the public sphere.

Julian Sanchez

#19. In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.

Alexander Dubcek

#20. Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.

Ludwig Von Mises

#21. Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

Alan Parker

#22. What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own.

Theodor Adorno

#23. History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

Jon Meacham

#24. I felt a taste of that other kind of contentment that doesn't come from acquiring information or getting praise or building a resume, the kind that is just there, like a hidden pearl.

Jaimal Yogis

#25. The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager to restrict the sphere of private initiative and free enterprise.

Ludwig Von Mises

#26. He was inside that realm of mind, the private universe, the infinite sphere of himself where he went to work magic.

Laini Taylor

#27. People with mental illnesses aren't wrapped up in themselves because they are intrinsically any more selfish than other people. Of course not. They are just feeling things that can't be ignored. Things that point the arrows inward.

Matt Haig