#private

You don’t get one chance at life but many over one lifetime. ↗

— Elize Amornette

#elize-amornette #elize-amornette-author #private-emotions-trilogy #romance-book #romance-novel-books

The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective." (Letter, April 19, 1951) ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#private-detective #realism #writing #life

[T]he power of enclosing land and owning property was brought into the creation by your ancestors by the sword; which first did murder their fellow creatures, men, and after plunder or steal away their land, and left this land successively to you, their children. And therefore, though you did not kill or thieve, yet you hold that cursed thing in your hand by the power of the sword; and so you justify the wicked deeds of your fathers, and that sin of your father shall be visited upon the head of you and your children to the third and fourth generation, and longer too, till your bloody and thieving power be rooted out of the land. ↗

— Winstanley

#theft #men

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#democratic #democratic society #functions #health #may

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. ↗

— Felix Adler

#corrupt #diseased #fruit #private #probity

I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#help #i #i can #life #lives

Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#common #entirely #exploited #good #ideas

Morality is a private and costly luxury. ↗

— Henry Adams

#luxury #morality #private

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech. ↗

— Samuel Alito

#against #discriminated #equally #private #religious

It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#creation #fun #good #good thing #house