Quotes About People

The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane. They have become Guardians of Being.

When you give little or no help to others or put obstacles in their path, the universe—in the form of people and circumstances—gives little or no help to you because you have cut yourself off from the whole.

In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers.

He is very rich, has no relations, and has a passion for power. Then he'll be hung, said the Chief, rising. I doubt it, said the other, people with lots of money seldom get hung. You only get hung for wanting money.

I sent for you, Mansus, because I suffer from the illusion that you have more brains than most of the people in my department, and that's not saying much.

To the people who told these stories all the universe was alive with the same kind of life they knew in themselves.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

It's rather clever of her to have made a specialty of devoting herself to dull people—the field is such a large one, and she has it practically to herself.

Well--watching the contortions of the damned is supposed to be a favorite sport of the angels, but I believe even they don't think people happier in hell.

Well—watching the contortions of the damned is supposed to be a favourite sport of the angels; but I believe even they don't think people happier in hell.

There was no sense of guilt in her now, but only a desperate desire to defend her secret from irreverent eyes, and begin life again among people to whom the harsh code of the village was unknown.

To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of Government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people. It is in the power of Government to prevent much evil; it can do very little positive good in this, or perhaps in any thing else. [Thoughts and Details on Scarcity]

Few things discover the state of the arts amongst people more certainly than the presents that are made to them by foreigners.

In El Paso," the President said approvingly, "the people are homicidal but orthodox.

The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.

Here is the thing you must bear in mind," Roosevelt said, clearly irritated. "I do not represent public opinion: I represent the public. There is a wide difference between the two, between the real interests of the public, and the public's opinion of these interests. I must represent not the excited opinion of the West, but the real interests of the whole people.

An autocrat's a ruler that does what th' people wants an' takes th' blame f'r it.

What worried Roosevelt was the inability of ordinary people to see the danger of this proliferation of cogs and cylinders and coins in American life.23 The corrupt power of corporations was increasing at an alarming rate

It is a sheer waste of time for these people Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to threaten me with defeat for the Presidency next year. Nothing would hire me even to accept the Presidency if I had to take it on terms which would mean a forfeiting of self-respect.

He might have to spend the rest of his presidency answering to the two classes of people always most vociferous in hard times: the bewildered and the guilty.

When a judge decides a constitutional question, when he decides what the people as a whole can and cannot do, the people should have the right to recall that decision if they think that it is wrong. We should hold the judiciary in all respect, but it is both absurd and degrading to make a fetish of a judge or of any one else.

Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

The provinces, long oppressed by the ministers of the republic, sighed for the government of a single person, who would be the master, not the accomplice, of those petty tyrants. The people of Rome, viewing, with a secret pleasure, the humiliation of the aristocracy, demanded only bread and public shows; and were supplied with both by the liberal hand of Augustus. The

he united the virtues of a king, a hero, and a man; that his martial spirit was tempered by the love of private and public justice; and that Louis was the father of his people, the friend of his neighbors, and the terror of the infidels.