Quotes About People

what is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive? Let me tell you—history is, unlike what they say on the loudspeakers, not driven by revolutionary force but by people's desire to climb up onto someone else's neck and shit and pee as he or she wants. Enough bad things are done by men already, but if you add women to the equation, one might as well wish not to bring a baby into this world.

the land of Israel would unite the people of Israel, not, God forbid, divide them.

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.

I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

This was a key moment in my life. I had always assumed that light carries farther than human voices and voices carry farther than body heat. But that night I realized it is not so, for when the people stand as one, their voices carry farther than light and their heat is carried farther still. That, I discovered, is what "the people" means.

Existences and events occurring without any relationship to myself, occurring at places that not only appealed to my senses but were moreover denied to me— these, together with the people involved in them, constituted my definition of "tragic things." It seemed that my grief at being eternally excluded was always transformed in my dreaming into grief for those persons and their ways of life, and that solely through my own grief I was trying to share in their existences.

Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

Yet in truth the lives of most people have meaning only within the network of stories they tell one another.

When people design web pages, they often cater to the taste of the Google search algorithm rather than to the taste of any human being.

The Russian, Chinese, and Cuban revolutions were made by people who were vital to the economy but who lacked political power; in 2016, Trump and Brexit were supported by many people who still enjoyed political power but who feared that they were losing their economic worth.

Accordingly, Herodotus showed keen interest in understanding Persian politics, while Sima Qian was very concerned about the culture and religion of barbarous steppe people.

The third threat to liberalism is that some people will remain both indispensable and undecipherable, but they will constitute a small and privileged elite of upgraded humans.

Throughout the world, more and more entrepreneurs, engineers, experts, scholars, lawyers and managers are called to join the empire. They must ponder whether to answer the imperial call or to remain loyal to their state and their people. More and more choose the empire.

La historia es algo que ha hecho muy poca gente mientras que todos los demás araban los campos y acarreaban barreños de agua.

When it comes to climate, countries are just not sovereign. They are at the mercy of actions taken by people on the other side of the planet.

Given the proven human propensity for misusing power, it seems naïve to believe that the more clout people have, the happier they will be.

War spreads ideas, technologies, and people far more quickly than commerce does.

If you want to launch a revolution, don't ask yourself, 'How many people support my ideas?' Instead, ask yourself, 'How many of my supporters are capable of effective collaboration?

If gods can possess land and employ people, why not algorithms?

secular world judges people on the basis of their behavior rather than their favorite clothes and ceremonies.

El arte desempeña un papel clave en dar forma a la visión que la gente tiene del mundo,

The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.

There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual ' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.

Deasupra lumii, cerul rece, de sticl?, spuzit de stele. Cerul se uit? la oameni cu mii ?i mii de ochi, cu ochi de stele, cu ochi aprin?i.