(643 quotes found)
“After all, in private we’re all misfits.”
Lily Tomlin
“Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.”
Walter Benjamin
“They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion”
Thomas Hobbes
“Lawyers as a group are no more dedicated to justice or public service than a private public utility is dedicated to giving light.”
David Melinkoff
“The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace”
Andrew Marvell
“I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions”
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
“Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.”
Stephen R. Covey
“I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.”
Chester A. Arthur
“My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm -- as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.”
Camille Paglia
“We stand for the maintenance of private property.”
Adolf Hitler