People Quotes
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.Alexis Carrel
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making.Herbert Spence
He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible.Shimon Peres
Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.Frederick Douglas
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.Fred Allen
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.Mark Twain
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.Anthony Sampson
Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.Denis Diderot
Santa Claus has the right idea; visit people once a year.Victor Borge
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.Saint Augustine
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.Warren Bennis
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.Paul Fussell
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.James Randi
Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.J. P. McEvoy
Friends are not the people you meet at the top they are the people who were with you at the bottom.Michael Marino
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.Jeremy Taylo
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial.Jeff Greenfield
I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.Benjamin Disraeli
We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.Euell Gibbons
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.Orison Swett Marden
The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.Albert Gallatin
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse cannot make a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man? s lawful prey.John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), British poet, artist,
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.Edith Sitwell
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.Virginia Woolf
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.Emil Nolde
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.Nikita Khrushchev
People forget how fast you did a job - - But they remember how well you did it.Howard W. Newton
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.Unknown
All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.Rudyard Kipling
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.Woody Allen
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes".
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.Noam Chomsky
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.Anatole France
