Quotes About People

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

That ancient chronicler Giraldus taunted the Archbishop of Cashel because no one in Ireland had received the crown of martyrdom. "Our people may be barbarous," the prelate answered, "but they have never lifted their hands against God's saints; but now that a people have come amongst us who know how to make them (it was just after the English invasion), we shall have martyrs plentifully.

Perhaps the Gaelic people shall by his like bring back again the ancient simplicity and amplitude of imagination.

When people are good the world likes them and takes possession of them, and so eternity comes through people who are not good or who have been forgotten. Perhaps Christianity was good and the world liked it, so now it is going away and the immortals are beginning to awake.

I'm free of all prejudices. I hate all people equally.

People and politics are a lot like think the wind. Depending on which way the wind is blowing either makes us sway left or right. Only when the winds are calm can we grow,straight and tall.

A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.

Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

Some people are fighting much, much more important battles and much bigger battles, and if we get the chance to put a smile on their face for ten seconds, it's so worth it.

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

It is really important for us that people understand what the strategy is and that the real approach is to make everything social, not to build a vertical approach.

...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.

From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and express people, their lives and times.

I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because there's no real communication going on there.

An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the same language.

The goal is to provide inspiring information that moves people to action.

There are many ways of communicating. Some hold the theory that new forms of communication between people can be obtained through hallucinogenic drugs.

A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them.