“A shy person will seek out someone strong to protect them. And a strong character’s often one who enjoys public life. Who thrives on it. And then, before you know it, the very person you’ve turned to in order to protect you is the very reason you are exposed.”— Peter Morgan, Jacqueline Kennedy, Jodi Balfour, imdb.com
“For everybody and every thing conspire to make me as contented as possible in it; yet I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“I've been in this public life, presidential races and so on for most of my life, starting in early Hubert Humphrey days, and I am sick about the diminished lack of substance, real closure on the important questions in our campaigns. I think we're in what I call the era of the marketer, where the ski…”— Walter Mondale, pbs.org
“Today is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world. The ultimate and sublime have withdrawn from public life either into abstract realm of mystical life or into fraternal alliances. It's not an accident that our greatest art now is in…”— Max Weber, amazon.com
“Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.”— Lauren Beukes, amazon.com