Quotes About People

Books he would always learn from, for people, great people, put the best of themselves into books. Books were a distillation of people. But people would be his teachers, and people were not in schoolrooms. People were everywhere.

The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions, and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the "cojones" to carry our argument to the people.

If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

...nuclear threats and nuclear weapons are the last argument of weak, stressed and irresponsible politicians. People must act very quicky to stop the movement to nuclear war.

Negative people are worse than negative occurrences. The argument is over in ten minutes - the person may hang around for years.

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't? - Damon

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.

Art is the soul of a people.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.

The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off. But that will not liberate Black people.