Private Realm Quotes

My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm—as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.

The custody, care and nurture of the child reside first in the parents, whose primary function and freedom include preparation for obligations the state can neither supply nor hinder... And it is in recognition of this that these decisions have respected the private realm of family life which the state cannot enter.

Political authority is problematic in Africa because of the blurry dividing line between the public and the private realm. Formal rules matter less than a series of informal institutions that regulate politics.

[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.

Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.

I feel like I live in my own little world, to be honest. I mean, I love my record, but I don't feel tied to it. I sort of created my own little universe in the studio, and that's why all of those musicians who made a living in the Nashville music scene loved coming over to my place so much.

You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.

People have been known to joke that my lifelong love of portal fantasies was born, at least in part, from the fact that stepping into my private spaces is a little like stepping through a portal into another world.

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.