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Maximilien Robespierre

Tim Berners-Lee

John Ruskin

William Blackstone

Vita Sackville-West

Basil Hume

Thomas E. Dewey

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

Maximilien Robespierre

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

Walter Lippmann

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Rosalind Russell

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? — to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? — Nobody!

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits
of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

From early childhood his moral principles had struggled blindly with his interests, but he was certain of one law that ruled all others — masses of men invariably follow interests in deciding morals. Morality is a private and costly luxury.

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best – out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.

John Sergeant Wise

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

Thomas E. Dewey

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Thomas Traherne

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

Tim Berners-Lee

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.

M. F. K. Fisher

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep — great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth's magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

Edward Mills Purcell

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

C. Wright Mills

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.