Quotes About People

Socialism is the epithet they have hurled at every advance the people have made," President Harry Truman observed. It was "what they called public power…bank deposit insurance…free and independent labor organizations…anything that helps all the people." Every time over the last century Americans have sought to pool their resources for the common good, the wealthy and powerful have used the bogeyman of "socialism" to try to stop them.

An economy should exist for the people who inhabit it, not the other way around. The purpose of an economy is to provide everyone with opportunities to live full, happy, and productive lives.

The system is created by people. The question is, 'Which people?' The central issue is not more or less government. It's 'Who is government for?'. In other words, it's all a question of power — who has it and who doesn't.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.

I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.

The trouble with having a body is that people know it's where you hang out and you don't get any privacy.

The great talent and the greatest difficulty - isn't it what we commonly call "charm" in daily life? People are charming because they aren't aware of their charm. That's what I'm looking for: true charm. That's what cinema needs.

To learn to ask for help and guidance from people who are trustworthy,

Ye'll try the world soon, my lad; And, Andrew dear, believe me, Ye'll find mankind an unco squad

You see, programmers tend to be arrogant, self-absorbed introverts. We didn't get into this business because we like people.

Os padrôes facilitam a reutilização de ideias e compomentes, recrutam pessoas com experiência considerável, encapsulam boas ideis e conectam os compomentes. Entretanto, o processo de criação de padôes pode, ás vezes, ser muito longo para que o mercado fique á espera deles, e alguns padrôes acabam se desviando das necessidades reais das pessoas a quem eles pretendem servir.

hope in a dictatorship of the tsar, acting for the people and against the nobles.

Lastly, as a speaker and writer he was the foremost representative and personal symbol of the regime in its relations with its own people and the outside world.

One of the ironies of cults is that the craziest groups are often composed of the most caring people.

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

Everyone understands the need for change in the abstract, but on the day-to-day level people are creatures of habit. Too much innovation is traumatic, and will lead to revolt.

Some people do not become aware of inclinations or future career paths in their childhood, but instead are made painfully aware of their limitations.

Understand this: In the game of power, the people you associate with are critical. The risk of associating with infectors is that you will waste valuable time and energy trying to free yourself. Through a kind of guilt by association, you will also suffer in the eyes of others. Never underestimate the dangers of infection.

The greatest danger you face is your general assumption that you really understand people and that you can quickly judge them. Instead, you must begin with the assumption that you are ignorant and that you have natural biases that will make you judge people incorrectly. Each person you meet is like an undiscovered country, with a very particular psychological chemistry that you will carefully explore.

In moments of uncertainty and danger, you need to fight this desire to turn inward. Instead, make yourself more accessible, seek out old allies and make new ones, force yourself into more and more different circles. This has been the trick of powerful people for centuries.

An understanding of people's hidden motives is the single greatest piece of knowledge you can have in acquiring power.

If people are essentially lazy or foolish, they leave clues to this in the smallest of details that you can pick up well before their behavior harms you.

Let us call this sensation mastery—the feeling that we have a greater command of reality, other people, and ourselves. Although it might be something we experience for only a short while, for others—Masters of their field—it becomes their way of life, their way of seeing the world.