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Quotes About People

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.
~ Vivienne Westwood
It is important for us to draw literally all working people into the government of the state. It is a task of tremendous difficulty. But socialism cannot be implemented by a minority, by the Party. It can be implemented by tens of millions when they have learned to do it for themselves.
~ Vladimir Lenin
The struggle to free the working people from the influence of the bourgeoisie in general, and of the imperialist bourgeoisie in particular, is impossible without a struggle against opportunist prejudices concerning the "state".
~ Vladimir Lenin
Bir toplant? çok say?da insan?n bir araya geldiÄŸi, baz?lar?n?n gerçekte düÅŸünmediklerini söyledikleri, baz?lar?n?n gerçekte yapt?klar?n? söylemedikleri bir düzenlemedir. -Er İvan Çonkin'in YaÅŸam? ve OlaÄŸanüstü Serüvenleri
~ Vladimir Voinovich
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
~ Voltaire
It is the city that is wrong, and its creations can never be right; they may be improved; they can never be what they should.... Until the whole atrocious system of herding working people in close-built cities, by way of making them serviceable cogwheels in the capitalistic machine for grinding out rent and profit, comes to an end, the physical education of children will remain at best a pathetic compromise.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
Her people, like all the other people on earth, were too self-centered, too introspective. Perhaps that was inevitable, for their isolation was well enforced. But as a result the healers has been too shortsighted; by protecting the dreamsnakes, they had kept them from maturing.
~ Vonda N. McIntyre
Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.
~ Unknown
Some people just don't appreciate having a dog around. It's sad to think there are people like that. I knew Gloria was that way—maybe that's why she could never be truly happy.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Dogs are not allowed to choose where they live; my fate would be decided by people.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
life was far more complicated than it had appeared to be in the Yard and that it was people who were in charge of it, not dogs.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
It cannot be a dog's purpose to understand what people want because it is impossible.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Ello nodded "I told him. Plus Garrett threw a plastic tomahawk into his room and I think it hit him." "Seems like sufficient notice." Hunter observed. "It was from the box of Thanksgiving decorations" Ello continued. "The tomahawk symbolizes our oppression of Native peoples. If there were any justice, we would all go back where we came from and leave the country to the people who were here first." "Okay" Hunter agreed "We'll leave after dinner." Ello gave him a dark fuming glare as he stood up.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
But Walt didn't chase the car, for some reason. That was my first hint that people don't always understand how to have fun. They need dogs to show them.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Most of these people smelled of something unusual, something I had never smelled before. I could not decide if I liked it or not. It was not a smell of the outside world that I was used to. Really, all that it smelled of was clean. Who would want to be clean when dirty smells were so much more interesting?
~ W. Bruce Cameron
though this dog, like so many others in this place, was gigantic. That's when it occurred to me: it wasn't that the people and the dogs were huge; it was that I was little. I was a tiny little dog! I had met tiny dogs in my life, of course. But I had never before considered that I might be one—I had always been large, because people sometimes need the protection a large dog affords them.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.
~ W. Clement Stone
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
~ W. Clement Stone
What they wanted to establish was a system of "People's Law," where the government is kept under the control of the people and political power is maintained at the balanced center with enough government to maintain security, justice, and good order, but not enough government to abuse the people. The
~ Unknown
Many customers form their opinions about the product or about the service solely by their contacts with the people that they see—contact men, I will call them.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Management of a system, cooperation between components, not competition. Management of people.
~ W. Edwards Deming
The wealth of a nation depends on its people, management, and government, more than on its natural resources.
~ W. Edwards Deming
The assumption spreads that government best knows what is good for its people, when ultimately it does not.
~ Unknown