Quotes About People

Wednesday, June 17, 1789, France went from a system where only the nobility and the church had power to a system where, at least theoretically, the common people did.

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.

This machine is driven in part by the oscillations of novelty and familiarity, of hunger and satiation, that curious internal psychophysical calculus that causes us to tire of food, music, the color orange. But it is also driven in part by the subtle movements of people trying to be like each other and people trying to be different from each other.

What ever-sharper, real-time data about people's actual listening behavior do is more strongly reinforce the feedback loop.

Try to imagine," one commentator observed, "the ambivalent anxieties of a freewheeling people with one foot in manure and the other in the telegraph office.

Some people come into our lives just to be a source of irritation.

Democracy is not only a form of state, it is not just something that is embodied in a constitution; democracy is a view of life, it requires a belief in human beings, in humanity...I have already said that democracy is a discussion. But the real discussion is possible only if people trust each other and if they try to fairly find the truth.

If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain, if you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees, if you want a hundred years of prosperity, grow people. Chinese proverb

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

But Gabriel saw people talking to the sky, the sky replying. And he knew he had to learn this dance. Someday soon, he may need it.

As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.

I was an accountant ... I rewrote the world through numbers. The world still had the same number of boats and trees and bottles of wine and loaves of bread after I finished my calculations, and yet all of a sudden people found themselves broke, or suddenly rich.

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

Of course, Mao made his mistakes, because everybody does, but at least he allowed working people to smoke, even in the most trying circumstances, such as when, for one reason or another, they found themselves up before the firing squad.

But if there is hope, it lies in ordinary working people. When you put it in words it sounds reasonable: it is when you look at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it becomes an act of faith.

Ghosts are what white people put in storybooks and picture shows. They do it to scare people about the dead. The church does the same. It's about making people afraid. I'm sure they know nothing about the good of a person's spirit and how it comes forward after death.

To win power, we need self-discipline not self-indulgence; listening to what people are truly saying, not hearing only the parts we want to hear.

She was the People's Princess, and that's how she will stay… in our hearts and in our memories forever.

For most normal people, politics is a distant, occasionally irritating fog.

The single hardest thing for a practicing politician to understand is that most people, most of the time, don't give politics a first thought all day long. Or if they do, it is with a sigh… before going back to worrying about the kids, the parents, the mortgage, the boss, their friends, their weight, their health, sex and rock 'n' roll.

I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.

Of course you are American,' he said, and waived his hand, like waving away the sentiment. 'What other country can throw away money sending its people to live with savages?