Quotes About People

This is the cosmic significance of explanatory knowledge – and hence of people, whom I shall henceforward define as entities that can create explanatory knowledge.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American.

People are perverts...that's pretty much been the basis of my career anyway.

Pensée d'un philosophe polonais Il y a des gens formidables Qu'on rencontre au mauvais moment. Et il y a des gens qui sont formidables Parce qu'on les rencontre au bon moment.

Nu cuplurile sunt cele care se destrama; lumea si oamenii lasati deoparte sunt cei care, incetul cu incetul, castiga terenul cedat pe momentul iubirii.

47 Reflexión de un pensador polaco: Hay gente fantástica a la que se conoce en mal momento. Y hay gente que es fantástica porque se la conoce en el momento adecuado.

It turns out that you only need 23 people for it to be more likely to find a shared birthday than not.

[Television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.

The television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

The trouble with people is they don't understand people.

It's legitimate for the police to use violence because they are enforcing the law; the law is legitimate because it's rooted in the constitution; the constitution is legitimate because it comes from the people; the people created the constitution by acts of illegal violence. The obvious question, then: How does one tell the difference between "the people" and a mere rampaging mob?

So how do the people resist unjust authority, which, we all agree, they must and should do and have done in the past? The best solution anyone has come up with is to say that violent revolutions can be avoided (and therefore, violent mobs legitimately suppressed) if 'the people' are understood to have the right to challenge the laws through nonviolent civil disobedience.

qualities of mutual care, love and above all happiness, which they found impossible to replicate once back in European settings. 'Security' takes many forms. There is the security of knowing one has a statistically smaller chance of getting shot with an arrow. And then there's the security of knowing that there are people in the world who will care deeply if one is.

the whole apparatus of trying to force people to behave well would be unnecessary if France did not also maintain a contrary apparatus that encourages people to behave badly.

Modern states are simply one way in which the three principles of domination happened to come together, but this time with a notion that the power of kings is held by an entity called 'the people' (or 'the nation'), that bureaucracies exist for the benefit of said 'people', and in which a variation on old, aristocratic contests and prizes has come to be relabelled as 'democracy', most often in the form of national elections.

He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time.

We try to elevate the empowerment of our people over the organizational niceties of structure and process except to the extent that those structural and process features work to empower our people

6 Most people announce that they show kindness, but who can find someone faithful [enough to do it]?

There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts.

Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.

I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.

His closing promise of survival for "government of the people, by the people, for the people" may have had its origin in Daniel Webster's 1830 speech calling the American government "made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people," but more probably he derived it from a sermon of Theodore Parker, to which Herndon had called his attention, defining democracy as "a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people.