People Quotes
People who know the least always argue the most.Author Unknown
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - It shall never be again.Rudyard Kipling
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.Unknown
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.Samuel Gompers, said in 1908
Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.Shannon Mille
Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.Jean Guehenno
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.Eric Hoffe
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.Jewish Prove
The only way to succeed is to make people hate you.Josef von Sternberg
There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.Thomas Jefferson
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal.Michael Masukawa
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.A. C. Benson
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.Norman Vincent Peale
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.H. L. Mencken
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.Bokonon
During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.George Frost Kennan
You do not destroy an idea by killing people you replace it with a better one.Edward Keating
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We forfeit three - Fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.Arthur Schopenhaue
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.Robert M. Pirsig
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.Karl Kraus
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.Will Rogers
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.Aristotle
I ask, Who are the militia They consist now of the whole people, except for a few public officers.George Mason
When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow - - To the end at all costs.Harold J. Seymou
All writers - All people - Have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half - Forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.Sir V Pritchett
Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.Stephen Butler Leacock
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.Joseph Joubert
People find life entirely too time - Consuming.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.Laurence J. Pete
If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154
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
