Famous quotes containing the words public issues, public and/or issues:
“Whatever else American thinkers do, they psychologize, often brilliantly. The trouble is that psychology only takes us so far. The new interest in families has its merits, but it will have done us all a disservice if it turns us away from public issues to private matters. A vision of things that has no room for the inner life is bankrupt, but a psychology without social analysis or politics is both powerless and very lonely.”
—Joseph Featherstone (20th century)
“Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no countryno interests staked in public wealno liabilities in common perilno partnership in a nations guilt and shame?”
—Angelina Grimké (18051879)
“I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930)