Public Life Quotes

The Supreme Court's 1947 decision which introduced the wall of separation between church and state 'has fueled a movement to sterilize anything in American public life from religion.'

I am in fear, there is no humour left in public life because of this fear.

We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.

My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

The number of people in public life who appear on television or on the big screen who are content to be who they are, you can probably count on one hand.

[Donald] Trump wasn't even in public life back in 2002-2003. There was nothing Trump could have done one way or the other no matter what he thought about it.

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.