Quotes About Affairs

They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.

It has been the one song of those who thirst after absolute power that the interest of the state requires that its affairs should be conducted in secret . . . .

They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.134

Nkiruka loved music, and now I saw that she was right because life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.

Nicholas felt a dread of their wanting to take him away from surroundings in which, protected from all the entanglements of life, he was living so calmly and quietly. He felt that sooner or later he would have to re-enter that whirlpool of life, with its embarrassments and affairs to be straightened out, its accounts with stewards, quarrels, and intrigues, its ties, society,

As is often the case with those gifted with an ardent imagination, though he had long known that Moscow would be abandoned, he knew it only with his intellect, he did not believe it in his heart and did not adapt himself mentally to this new position of affairs.

With a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to B.

At a time when the ideological prestige of Soviet Russia had collapsed, utopian longings fixed themselves on the exotic East, the more easily because of the general ignorance of Chinese affairs.

She ruminated, again, on the eternal return, the widening gyre, that seemed to govern human history. There is a tide in the affairs of men. A slack tide, that heaves up wrack and slime and rotting seaweed and deposits them on the sand, like a cat leaving the corpse of a rat on your doorstep. Then it slinks back in search of more.

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

From creating a new sovereign to affairs of the heart, majestic moments to everyday life, when monarchy wants to send a message it uses a photograph.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me? the State may be given up for lost.

As soon as anyone says of the affairs of the state 'What do I care?', the state may be given up for lost.

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

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

I can't stress enough how strongly I am against any state intervention in a sovereign nation's affairs.

Every party conference season, I'm struck by how much is spent on lobbying by the public affairs industry.

Iranians embraced my approach to domestic and international affairs because they saw it as long overdue.

Silence. Stillness. To give her soul a chance to attend its own affairs at its own level.

This imperial woman, so diverse and rich in her genius, might have chosen her own greatness had she been able to single one gift above another, but she could not make her own choice of what she loved best to do, and so she did something of each and in all she excelled. As for those affairs of state which had absorbed her until

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.