People Quotes

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, As Easy as A. B. C. (1917)

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

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Oscar Wilde

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don? t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Adam Smith

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James

Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. on flying saucers.

Albert Einstein

It? s a wonder I haven? t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.

Michael J. Gel

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

Heraclitus

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Nora Ephron

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

Adolph Hitle

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

Francis Bacon

Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

Edna Ferbe

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

Samuel Gompers, said in 1908

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

Laurence Pete

I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

R. H. Grant

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is....

Sinclair Lewis

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.

Jane Austen

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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 people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

Robertson Davies

Look for strengths in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

J. Wilbur Chapman

Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Rousseau

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

George Orwell

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.

Matthew Arnold

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

William J. Locke

Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld