Quotes of: Private-citizen Keyword

Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.

The First Salute

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

Gabriel García Márquez: a Life

I've always privately suspected that Jesus is in favor of revolutionaries, seeing as how he was a bit of one himself.

Bonds of Earth

Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.

Before I Wake

The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as much as they could, so they put me in a private school when I was super young.

Big Sean

In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private account...

Herman Cain

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

Michelle Malkin

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care...

Joseph Butler

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

Mitch Daniels

We can all agree that government can't solve the obesity crisis alone. It's an ongoing issue that will require a collaborative effort across private and public sectors if we want to see some long-term success.

Marcus Samuelsson

By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.

Robert Wilson

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

The Apology

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.

Will Shetterly

The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.

To His Coy Mistress

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.

Herland

The interior of the arms dealer's private jet was so ugly it hurt my feelings as well as my eyeballs.

I Am Pilgrim

A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market

There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private

Salvage the Bones

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

London Calling

Hell, everybody is a masochist. Some of us are just a little more private.

The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger

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

Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises