P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.”
“Privacy isn't dead, although it is fashionable for digerati to say so.”
“Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.”
“Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.”
“Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.”
“Privacy may actually be an anomaly.”
“privacy sacrificed without intimacy being gained.”
Source: The Ghost Road
“Privacy seems not an illusion for those
who want to believe in secrecy principle.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Privacy, self-reliance, choice -- all these can and must remina core American values. Yet so too must we remember that other core American value, the value of community. And we must redefine community more broadly to include not just our street or our tract, but our town, our metropolis, our region.”
Source: The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles
“privacy shifts into secrecy when an act of deliberate concealment or hiding has a significant impact on a relationship process”
Source: The Dance of Deception: A Guide to Authenticity and Truth-Telling in Women's Relationships
“Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.”
“Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.”
Source: A Mania for Magnificence
“Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.”
“Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether for pain or profit, by design or accident, we not call public attention to ourselves.”
Source: Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor
“Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.”
“Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime against humanity, but the comparative few who are beneficiaries of this iniquitous social arrangement, far from being viewed as criminals meriting punishment, are the exalted rulers of society, and the people they exploit gladly render them homage and obeisance.”
“Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.”
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
“Private Benjamin lives next door but one to Bob Cryer from The Bill. I once saw him crouching down behind a sycamore tree and using his nose as an Allen Key to release a starving rat.”
“Private boarding schools and Catholic schools on the East Coast are something. Choate really ruined my father's life. He's had nightmares about Choate every since he went there. Treat Williams, who's a good friend, went to Kent School, in Connecticut. The stories I've heard about those places - didn't you have one nun who was just the worst nightmare?”
“Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.”
Source: No, They Can't: Why Government Fails-But Individuals Succeed
“Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.”
“Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.”
Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It
“Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.”
“Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.”
“Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives. That sum total of private behavior has worldwide public consequences of enormous magnitude. There are no completely private choices.”
“Private citizens and companies are always seen as evil and greedy, because they want to profit. But the government picks your pocket any chance it can get, but they're never called greedy.”
“Private companies can make a personal profile, direct you to things - they will say - that you would be interested in, but that's their choice not your choice.”
“Private companies have a lot of capital. They can run things efficiently and get projects built.”
“Private confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.”
“Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)
“Private Detective, John Ballou, opened his glove compartment and took out his Colt 45 thinking an ex-con might be setting him up to settle an old score. He checked the bullet clip and slipped the powerful pistol into his coat pocket.”
Source: James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children
“Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.”
“Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.”
“Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.”
Source: The affluent society
“Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm.”
“Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7
“Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.”
“Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up the seed corn - the tools - which will increase poverty in the long run.”
“Private enterprise is not concerned with what it produces but only with what it gains from production.”
Source: Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
“Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.”
Source: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius
“Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“Private enterprise, pursuing as ever quick profits from the vapid tastes of the market-place, eschews judgement, and rather than put its hand in the fire for excellence, puts its head in the rubbish for money. Many and many a fine work has been thus abandoned. 'Alas!' cry the mansion-dwelling entrepreneurs, weeping crocodile tears, 'The money ran out!' But it was not the money; it was the rats.”
Source: Sketches from Bleak House
“Private equity capital in each of those markets Europe and Asia - while those markets have very different characteristics - fills a niche where either strategic investors or the public markets don't go, or don't want to go for some particular reason. I think that's going to continue to be the case going forward.”
“Private equity enables the growth and development of unlisted businesses.”
“Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.”
“Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.”
“Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.”
“Private equity is a growing form of financing.”
“Private Equity really has the power to direct the development of civilization. Because development goes where capital flows.”
“Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.”