Quotes About Private

I remember what Old Joe Hun said when arguing with Adrian: that mental states can be inferred from actions. That's in history—Henry VIII and all that. Whereas in the private life, I think the converse is true: that you can infer past actions from current mental states.

mental states can be inferred from actions. That's in history—Henry VIII and all that. Whereas in the private life, I think the converse is true: that you can infer past actions from current mental states.

But I remember what Old Joe Hunt said when arguing with Adrian: that mental states can be inferred from actions. That's in history—Henry VIII and all that. Whereas in the private life, I think the converse is true: that you can infer past actions from current mental states.

Privately, the three of us examined his case and came up with a theory: that the key to a happy family life was for there not to be a family—or at least, not one living together. Having made this analysis, we envied Adrian the more.

I keep alive our lost private language.

I'm never going to get these folds just so, she remarked. We'll practice that, too, Alec promised. She didn't start to blush until Father Murdock asked what else they were practicing. Perhaps I could lend my expertise, he suggested eagerly. A private matter, Jamie blurted out. We can't use your assistance, Father, but we both thank you for offering. Alec's devilish smile widened.

The idea was that everything personal was political; in fact, henceforth nothing was supposed to be regarded as 'personal' or private.

the place where we store the true parts of our soul, away from the rest of the world.

In the West, we have deliberately excluded religion from political life and regard faith as an essentially private activity. But this is a modern development, dating only to the eighteenth century, and would have been incomprehensible to both Jesus and Paul.

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.

It is one of the greatest misapprehensions to speak of free, human, social labour, of albour without private property. Labour by its very nature is unfree, unhuman, unsocial activity, determined by private property and creating private property. Hence the abolition of private property will become a reality only when it is concieved as the abolition of labour .

Political economy starts with the fact of private property; it does not explain it to us. It expresses in general, abstract formulas the material process through which private property actually passes, and these formulas it then takes for laws . It does not comprehend these laws — i.e., it does not demonstrate how they arise from the very nature of private property.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.

Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

In addition, Islam stressed on purifying the body, clothes and everything that is related to man's private life in his land and home, from the unclean impurity.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!