Quotes About People

Nonc looks out on the city. It looks like one of those end-times Bible paintings where everything is large and impressive, but when you look close, in all the corners, some major shit is befalling people.

so clear, everything. There was no such thing as abandonment, there were only people in impossible positions, people who had a best hope, or maybe only a sole hope.

How could you build a reputation in an environment where the only people who got names were the interns and the sad old retirees who clamber in to relive the glory days? While

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

Homer then has the bard—a blind man whose name is Demodocus, which means "popular with the people"—say something that drives far into the center of what Homer means and why Homer matters: "The gods did this and spun the destruction of people / For the sake of the singing of men hereafter." The song, this poem, this story, is the divine

The people we fall in love with we find singularly captivating, as are any of the people (or ideas) that inspire us, for better or for worse.

psychoanalysis is an account of how and why modern people are so frightened of each other. What

there is no contemporary evidence even for the existence of Jesus Christ, arguably the most influential man in history. Most of our tales about his life were written in the decades after his death by people who had never met him.

though the data should be pure and straightforward, science is done by people, who are never either.

24If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, do not act toward them as a creditor; exact no interest from them.

parents in the group were as unprepared as I for the antagonism between their children. Even now, years later, as I sit here leading my first workshop on sibling rivalry, I realize how little has changed. People can't

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

The nationalization of the masses can be successfully achieved only if, in the positive struggle to win the soul of the people, those who spread the international poison among them are exterminated.

This means that a people cannot be made "national" according to the signification attached to that word by our bourgeois class today - that is to say, nationalism with many reservations- but national in the vehement and extreme sense.

When the Habsburg State crumbled to pieces in 1918 the Austrian Germans instinctively raised an outcry for union with their German fatherland. That was the voice of a unanimous yearning in the hearts of the whole people for a return to the unforgotten home of their fathers.

Cleanliness, whether moral or of another kind, had its own peculiar meaning for these people. That they were water-shy was obvious on looking at them and, unfortunately, very often also when not looking at them at all. The odor of those people in caftans often used to make me feel ill. Beyond that there were the unkempt clothes and the ignoble exterior.

the masses of the people prefer the ruler to the suppliant and are filled with a stronger sense of mental security by a teaching that brooks no rival than by a teaching which offers them a liberal choice. They have very little idea of how to make such a choice and thus they are prone to feel that they have been abandoned.

I am prepared to admit that the National Socialist ideal, in its final perfection, stands like a polar star above mankind. But mankind must ever follow a star. If it laid hold of this star, it would see it no more. We are on the right road, and we have the right goal. We shall be reforming the German people for centuries. Speech of January 15, 1936

The spectacled theorist would have given his life for his doctrine rather than for his people. Because man has made laws he subsequently comes to think that he exists for the sake of the laws.

So long as there are employers who attack social understanding and have wrong ideas of justice and fair play it is not only the right but also the duty of their employees - who are, after all, an integral part of our people - to protect the general interests against the greed and unreason of the individual.

A movement that has great ends to achieve must carefully guard against the danger of losing contact with the masses of people... Every question encountered must be examined primarily from this viewpoint, and the decision to be made must always be accordingly.

Decisi per ciò di tornare a lavorare in qualche cantiere. Nel mio intimo sorse la domanda: costoro sono forse uomini degni di appartenere a un grande popolo? Mi pareva che la massa di coloro i quali non si possono più calcolare come appartenenti alla Nazione si gonfiasse fino a diventare un esercito