Quotes About People

We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

The trouble with history is that there are too many people involved

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.

The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us.

When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age.

You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is - my point is, there's a strong will for democracy.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.

The most interesting place by far was Afghanistan. Just because it is a place that I cannot see myself living. The hardness of the people and the history of the country is just so completely intense.

The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.

History tends to change people who think they're changing it.

My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did.

One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever.

A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.

To go again over the history of the struggle of resistance ... and to think 'Where are all these people today Where is the KGB' is very inspiring

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.