Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
Stephen Covey

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
Mohandas Gandhi

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Aristotle

God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
John Adams

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl Marx

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
T. S. Eliot

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.
Lauren Bacall

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.
Lauren Bacall

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Milton Friedman

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus

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

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
Plutarch

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.
George W. Bush

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
John Steinbeck

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.
Aaliyah