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Quotes About People

they have been troubled with the same disease to which the whole race of mankind is subject; the nobility often contending for power, the people for liberty, and the King for absolute dominion. All which, however happily tempered by the laws of that Kingdom, have been sometimes violated by each of the three parties
~ Jonathan Swift
La mayoría de las personas son como alfileres: sus cabezas no son lo más importante
~ Jonathan Swift
I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There's nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.
~ Jorge Amado
I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Su modestia y su anhelo de agradar eran tan duraderos que muchas noches comenzó por defensa y acabó por confesión, siempre al servicio de las inclinaciones del pueblo.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Hate is contagious. A few seconds after Donald Trump has told me something hateful, somebody else repeats it. He has legitimized what people only dare say in their kitchens and bedrooms.
~ Jorge Ramos
He has yet to confront society with this ego-shattering, life-redeeming elixir, and take the return blow of reasonable queries, hard resentment, and good people at a loss to comprehend.
~ Joseph Campbell
Gods are metaphors transparent to transcendence. And my understanding of the mythological mode is that deities and even people are to be understood in this sense, as metaphors. It's a poetic understanding. It is to be understood in the same sense as Goethe's words at the end of Faust: "Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis" ("Everything transitory is but a reference").
~ Joseph Campbell
I even have a superstition that has grown on me as the result of invisible hands coming all the time - namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
~ Joseph Campbell
The dedication: To John Vine Milne: My Dear Father, Like all really nice people, you have a weakness for detective stories, and feel that there are not enough of them. So after all that you have done for me, the least I can do for you is to write one. Here it is: with more gratitude and affection than I can well put down here.
~ A. A. Milne
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
~ A. Bartlett Giamatti
and powerful towards both the people and the state. He reaffirms the basic cause of 'our revolution', No taxation without representation; he insists that government revenue 'be kept under public control' and not be given over to the banks to speculate with; and he endorses President Jackson's saying 'No where so well deposited as in the pants of the people, | Wealth ain't'.
~ A. David Moody
The bells they sound on Bredon,And still the steeples hum."Come all to church, good people"—Oh, noisy bells, be dumb;I hear you, I will come.
~ A. E. Housman
But I am afraid of people. I fear people! When from my room I hear drunken men swearing and fighting in the street I go pale with terror.
~ A. I. Kuprin
It must be said that almost all primitive people think themselves divinely wrought, singled out and special. Often their names translate simply as "the people" or, like the San bushmen of the Kalahari, the first people. But this is a symptom of primitiveness; attempting to prove divine biology in the nineteenth century is the anthropological equivalent of a society regressing to sleeping with the lights on.
~ A.A. Gill
The Ninth Amendment, which is not often mentioned, was perfectly foresighted. It says the numeration of the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. So no future law could be made that would deny or trespass on rights already given to Americans.
~ A.A. Gill
Now, I'd suggest you take your little self on home and stop believing that because of this new political climate we've been thrust into that you can say and do whatever you want to good God-fearing people. Because you see, the Lord may have said that 'vengeance is mine', but a good ass-whoopin' can come from anyone. You need to remember that." Mia
~ A.C. Arthur
I've never fully trusted people who don't like dogs. They rarely turn out well.
~ A.J. Hartley
C'est à cause de la légitimité que le peuple octroie à l'Etat que le dit Etat use de violence vis-à-vis du peuple lorsque celui-ci ne fait pas ce qu'il a décidé.
~ Étienne de La Boétie
Then why are you begging? – To find out what effect it has and to observe people's reaction
~ Ágota Kristóf
Now, you should admit it: you are here engaged in some military action directed against the Yuuzhan Vong, knowing full well that any action you take could embroil the people of this peaceful world in your destructive war." "Isn't destructive war kind of redundant? Until I see a constructive war, or even a giggly war, I have to think so." Mudlath & Han
~ Aaron Allston
In my line of work, there are no money-back guarantees, because there's no money involved. These are people, not vacuum cleaners.
~ Aaron Karo
Recessions are great because they unlock the best people.
~ Aaron Patzer
It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
~ Aaron Sorkin