People Quotes

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Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do.
Bertrand Russell
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement Atlee
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
Frank Moore Colby
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
R. H. Grant
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Baron Henry Peter Brougham
Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.
Jean Guehenno
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Robert Oxton Bolt
It is with narrow - Souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
Alexander Pope
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.
Groucho Marx
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their luck arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.
Srully Blotnick
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
Marcel Archard
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
Garth Brooks, Country Music
More people out of work leads to higher unemployment. `
Calvin Coolidge
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
Mario Puzo
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Dorothea Lange
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
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
No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.
Thomas Jefferson
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
Lao Tse
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.
Michael J. Gel
Two people kissing always look like fish.
Andy Warhol
Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
George Bernard Shaw
The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them.
Thomas C. Haliburton
On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you.
Geof Greenleaf
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Author Unknown
People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.
James F. Hind
People change and forget to tell eachother.
Lillian Hellman
In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.
Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville