Quotes About People

The dream of an unworked natural landscape is very much the fantasy of people who have never themselves had to work the land to make a living.

Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the building of cities.

The special task of environmental historians is to tell stories that carry us back and forth across the boundary between people and nature to reveal just how culturally constructed that boundary is -- and how dependent upon natural systems it remains.

You know that I am a great believer that the faults of people are very often more determining than their qualities.

fields in the world laid waste; and five millions of harmless and industrious people were either expelled or destroyed. Want of foresight became more fatal than innate barbarism; and [the company's servants] found themselves wading

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.

Christ is a prince that loves to see his people thrive and grow rich under his government. This

God is glorious when the world sees him not, but his declarative glory then appears when the glory of his mercy, truth, and faithfulness break forth in his people's salvation.

And now the hero comes- the trumpet of his people. And his voice is enlarged like a movie's lion. He roars, he screams so well for everyone, his tantrums tame a people. He is the Son of God, if God is Resentment. And God is Resentment- a pharaoh for the disappointed people.

This book is about the organization man. If the term is vague, it is because I can think of no other way to describe the people I am talking about…. They are the ones of our middle class who have left home, spiritually as well as physically, to take the vows of organization life, and it is they who are the mind and soul of our great self-perpetuating institutions.

the spectacle of people following current custom for lack of will or imagination to do anything else is hardly a new failing.

The gospels tell us that knowing where this gift came from, who his people were, isn't going to help us much. If you want to know about Jesus, if you want to know him, you've got to meet him on the road.

I trust the people.

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

The broad foundation upon which our Constitution rests being the people—a breath of theirs having made, as a breath can unmake, change, or modify it—it can be assigned to none of the great divisions of government but to that of democracy.

And afterwards the People did wander over that Country of Silence, and made visit and honour to their Ancestors, if such were deserving.

for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR.

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.