People Quotes

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

Kofi Annan, In his "In Larger Freedom" report to the United Nations General Assembly

No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.

Thomas Jefferson

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Benjamin Disraeli

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

Karl Kraus

During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - They neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

Imam Ali - Ibn - Abi - Talib, Nahjul - Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no1

Where no counsel is, the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Proverbs 1114 Bible Hebrew

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Charles Bukowski, From "Betting on the Muse".

Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Henrik Ibsen

Generous people are rarely mentally ill.

Dr. Karl Menninge

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Lucille Ball

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.

Missy Dizick

Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

Simone Weil

We forfeit three - Fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Arthur Schopenhaue

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Carl Jung

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

J. P. McEvoy

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Dwight David Eisenhowe

The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.

Albert Einstein

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Anatole France

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

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

John Harrigan

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Douglas H. Everett

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.

William Lyon Phelps

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.

Hai

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.

Alexander Hamilton

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Gagehot

The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them.

Thomas C. Haliburton

If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

Mother Teresa

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

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

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still know how to read.

Computer Museum

What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny?

Winston Churchill, Speaking of the Japanese invasion of British colonies in SE Asia

The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.

Jon Wynne Tyson

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Albert Camus

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West