Quotes About Private

Political rituals — the daily flag salute by schoolchildren, singing the national anthem — use public conformity to build a private belief in patriotism.

Insofar as Americans have a popular image of postal workers, it has become increasingly squalid. But this didn't just happen. It is the result of intentional policy choices. Since the 1980s, legislators have led the way in systematically defunding the post office and encouraging private alternatives as part of an ongoing campaign to convince Americans that government doesn't really work.

A critique of bureaucracy fit for the times would have to show how all these threads—financialization, violence, technology, the fusion of public and private—knit together into a single, self-sustaining web.

The European conception of individual freedom was, by contrast, tied ineluctably to notions of private property. Legally, this association traces back above all to the power of the male household head in ancient Rome, who could do whatever he liked with his chattels and possessions, including his children and slaves.

They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing.

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.

Real power around the world does not reside with governments any longer, but with private interests. Real power is secret power.

According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man's prerogative - and woman's - to create their own particular and private hell.

A private victory leads to a public victory and a corporate blessing, because God turns His face toward those who will demonstrate character when no one is looking.

The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.

The worship of God....should be free at table, in private rooms, downstairs, upstairs, at home, abroad, in all places, by all peoples, at all times

My worth to God in public is what I am in private.

Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.

When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private.

The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.

I feel like I know it is from my heart and God knows it is for a good cause, it is not necessary to be made public.

Becoming God's reflection first in our private life and walking before God creates a wonderful platform for us to be eligible to change a whole nation for God

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.

To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.