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Like all fundamentalists who get their clammy hands on the levers of power, the market fanatics are going to kill off every humane, life-enhancing, generous, imaginative and decent corner of our public life.... Market fundamentalism, this madness that's infected the human race, is like a greedy ghost that haunts the boardrooms and council chambers and committee rooms from which the world is run these days. The greedy ghost understands profit all right. But that's all. What he doesn't... Philip Pullman
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes. Marilyn French
E. M. Forster quote: "The more highly public life is organized the lower does its..."
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. E. M. Forster
Alexander Downer quote: "I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect..."
I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all. Alexander Downer
Benjamin Disraeli quote: "You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of..."
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. Benjamin Disraeli
Princess Diana quote: "So many people supported me through my public life and I will..."
So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them. Princess Diana
There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC. Gavyn Davies
The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind. Anthony Holden
But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five. Anthony Holden
On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics. Arthur Henderson
Calvin Coolidge quote: "You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life..."
You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me. Calvin Coolidge
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. Barry Commoner
King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens. Cornel West
Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents. Frederick Scott Oliver
The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state. Thomas Watson, Jr.

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