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Quotes About People

This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?
~ Ingmar Bergman
I feel like it's been important for me to use my own personal experiences with food and money to help people to not feel ashamed. I felt so much shame about my own experiences.
~ Geneen Roth
Tel Aviv is a dynamic international city with a lot of smart people, great fashion and food. I've met a lot of amazing people and there's this great energy everywhere.
~ Unknown
Oh my lovely princess, "Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them."-Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)
~ Brandon Sanderson, Elantris
I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It's undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms of the people, arts, food, architecture and design.
~ Jean-Michel Jarre
If one by one we counted people outFor the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.
~ Robert Frost
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes of the people.
~ Emiliano Zapata
But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
~ Andrew Jackson
Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
~ Salman Rushdie
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
~ James Madison
There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press
~ Mark Twain
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
~ Thomas Jefferson
No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
We have freedom to demonstrate in Germany, but there is no place for incitement and insulting people who come to us from other countries.
~ Angela Merkel
A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom.
~ Royal Robbins
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
~ Madeleine Albright
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
~ John Adams
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
~ John Stuart Mill
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
~ H. L. Mencken
Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
A people's art is the genesis of their freedom.
~ Unknown
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
~ Benjamin Franklin