When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear.
I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.
Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess.
A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
If you descend into somebody else's private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell.
Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.
Just do exactly what it is that makes you want to do what you do. The stuff I listen to in my private collection, it's what moves me, makes me want to play. I want to make other people feel like I feel when I listen to that music. Whether other people like it or criticize it - even if there's only 10 people on the planet that love it, you're touching 10 people that way.
I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process should be sufficient in order to support financially the Greek economy.
I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation. Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.
When we get the private sector going through job creation and growth, then the governments at all level have revenues to do the things that they need to do. And that's why it's so important to get this economy moving, to get jobs created. We can't keep going on with this anemic recovery.
I prefer for a woman's most private of areas to have as much hair as Carlos Santana's entire band, head to toe, circa 1972.
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.
I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.
Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private.
[Adolf Hitler] was very close-mouthed, he was the most private individual I have ever seen, very secretive.
I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me. . . and my father is a decidedly private person.
There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.
All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private.