Affairs Quotes
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.
Aristotle
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If there is a God, it is inconceivable that he would be concerned about my day to day affairs.
Gautama Buddha -
By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.
Francesco Guicciardini -
Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.
Honore de Balzac -
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.
Charles Dickens -
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.
Baruch Spinoza -
Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees.
Alexandre Dumas -
In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.
Gavin Extence -
If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had I known the real state of affairs, I would never have allowed our aircraft to bombard and destroy a starving population and at the same time re-establish the Spanish clergy in all their horrible privileges. (10th February 1945)
Adolf Hitler -
Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.
Benjamin Constant -
Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.
Hannah Arendt
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On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.
Confucius -
Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Confucius -
Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled - will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress.
Thomas A. Edison -
International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
Bernard Berenson
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There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.
Edgar Dale -
[Maxim] Litvinov signed his letter not in private capacity but as representative of the state, just as did President [Franklin] Roosevelt. Their agreement represents an agrement between two states. Signing this agreement both Litvinov and President Roosevelt as the representatives of two states have in mind the activities of the agents of those states who should not and will not interfere in each other's internal affairs.
Joseph Stalin -
I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.
Cesar Romero -
In China, inaugurations are frequent affairs, though they have nothing to do with presidents. A news cycle rarely passes without some fanfare over the inaugural ride on a new subway line or the inaugural trip across an unusually large bridge.
Evan Osnos