“Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public”

“Politics is a process which should slowly bring to public all the private worries and hopes of the individual.”

“Success always hugs you in private,but failure slaps you in the public...”

“All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of public concern, as issues of justice, as sites of power.”

“Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly.”

“gay marriage... always being an issue for the voting public when it should be an individual‘s private choice.”