Quotes About People

here is a better chance of a repository of the kind of wisdom I choose to be governed by among average people than among Ph.D's at Harvard."22

The government should not force a way upon the people against their will, for to do so is tyranny by legislation. "There are two sorts of tyranny: a real one, which consists in the violence of the government, and one of opinion, which is felt when those who govern establish things that run counter to a nation's way of thinking" (3, 19, 3). •

And the people cannot be bothered with administration, for not only are they too busy, but they are simply unfit for and incapable of such a momentous task. It must be left to a relative handful of sensible and learned professionals.

and his presence, to always ask myself why people acted the way they did, and to look with compassion at the suffering that must invariably lie at the root of problem behaviors. I have found this invaluable in my subsequent dealings with other difficult people. My

A Brief History of the Universe: Billions of days ago, atoms began joining together to form stars and planets. On these planets, cells came together to form plants, animals, and people, and then people started gathering to form civilizations. And do you know why all these atoms, cells, and people came together? Because nothing wants to be alone! The invisible force which controls the universe and sets all things in motion? It's called "loneliness!

Sometimes you become so focused on protecting people from danger that you become the danger.

Gandhi believed that the means of struggle a people used would shape the society that grew out of the struggle.

Salvation will not come from the legislators. Salvation will not come from the military. If there is any salvation, it will come from the people. Jayaprakash Narayan

We are just imperfect people trying to help heal a broken world

Seeing them butcher the dead . . . I don't know, Father . . . It makes me question my faith in mankind, in people being good deep down, not savages, not like that.

But now, my people will starve." "Some might," Leyers said. "But I answer to a greater authority. Any lack of enthusiasm for this mission on my part could be grounds for . . . Well, that's not going to happen if I can help it. Take me back to Milan, the central train station.

We never know what will happen next, what we will see, and what important person will come into our life, or what important person we will lose.

This faith stuff, this religion stuff, is not about words, or even beliefs, it's about relationships and people.

I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us

We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH.

I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named their son Gaylord Focker.

Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.

I am very picky about my people and my beer.