People Quotes
Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.Confucius, Roots of Wisdom 4th edition
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.G. M. Trevelyan
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.Kahlil Gibran
A revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.John Adams, (Diary, 1786)
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. Lesson of trust.Numbers 21: 7, Holy Bible
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
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.Elizabeth Bowen
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.Soren Kierkegaard
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.Fran Leibowitz, Metropolitan Life
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
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self - Restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.Author Unknown
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944
If God dropped acid, would he see people?Steven Wright
One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.Tshunka Witko
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.Author Unknown
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.Paul Val? ry
No one ever promised that the fastest horse in the race was the easiest one to ride. on managing talented people.Eric J. Joiner, Jr.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.James F. Byrnes
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.Heinrich Heine
Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language
Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it.Peggy Joyce
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.Margaret Mead
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.Sainte - Beave
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.William O. Douglas
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.Thomas Carlyle
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.Wally Lam
Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.Ernest Hemingway
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.Joseph Addison
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.Ralph Nade
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.Bonaro Overstreet
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
People do not want words - They want the sound of battle... the battle of destiny.Gamal Abdel Nasse
You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.Zig Ziglar, See you at the Top
