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Quotes About People

In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many!
~ Ken Kesey
Sometimes a manipulator's own ends are simply the actual disruption of the ward for the sake of disruption. There are such people in our society.
~ Ken Kesey
Power people are generally threatened by authority people.
~ James Hunter
Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.
~ William O. Douglas
Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose.
~ Joseph Weizenbaum
Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.
~ Mark Pellegrino
We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.
~ Joe Slovo
I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
~ Alice Walker
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
~ John Quincy Adams
No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.
~ William Rawle
If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.
~ Timothy Keller
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Quality combines people power and process power.
~ Subir Chowdhury
The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.
~ Nelson Mandela
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
~ Charles de Secondat
Change is not about putting a different kind of people in power but a different kind of power in people.
~ Michael N. Nagler
You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.
~ Steven Morrissey
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
~ Larry Wall
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
~ Bashar al-Assad
A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.
~ Eleanor Dark
The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
~ Wendell Phillips
The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.
~ Bob Dylan
I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.
~ Corazon Aquino