People Quotes

It is because they took the easy way out, That rivers and people, go crooked.

Jill Peterson

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex.

Cicero

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.

Author Unknown

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Pope John Paul II

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

William Ralph Inge

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

Robert Anthony

I let the American people down.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Benjamin Franklin

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplie

Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.

Thomas H. Huxley

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Eric Hoffe

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.

Woodrow Wilson

Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Andrew Brown

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" - - Page 180

Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.

Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichle

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

Nancy Spain

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law - Abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.

James Earl Jones

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

Tom Lehre

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Thomas Jefferson

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

Baltasar Gracian

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

Art Linklette

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Stanislaus

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

Clare Booth Luce

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

Brendan Behan

Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election.

Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Leading the Jewish people is not easy - we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp - wittedness and polemics to a very high level.

Shimon Peres

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid - 1980s, meaning there was about a 25 - Year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

Mark Leepe

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Ludwig Wittgenstein