Quotes About People

A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.

Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.

What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are.

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.

Understanding (not necessarily acceptance) is vital in dealing with other people, whether those people are human, Simiu, Mizari, or energy beings.

I don't want to have my money scalped off me to maintain other people's children. I don't like other people; I particularly don't like their children; I deeply disapprove of their proliferation making the globe uninhabitable. The fucking idiots – I don't want to pay for their fucking.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excersize their Constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.

After all, there are those people we like and dislike, there are those people we love, and then there are those we recognize. These are the unbreakable connections.

And this is my most selfish thought, that if I lose the people I love what is left of my own life will consist only of grief.

In the Buddhist view, the king served the people; in the Hindu view, the people served the king. However

Gallantly, ceaselessly, quietly, man must fight for inner liberty" to remain independent of the enslavement of the material world. "Inner liberty depends upon being exempt from domination of things as well as from domination of people. There are many who have acquired a high degree of political and social liberty, but only very few are not enslaved to things. This is our constant problem—how to live with people and remain free, how to live with things and remain independent.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.