Quotes About People

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

Almost everything that Jesus taught, all His ideas, had been set down before in the Old Testament. Then came the largest riddle of all. If Jesus were to return to the earth she was certain He would go to a synagogue rather than a church. Why could people worship Jesus and hate His people?

Aquí es donde Dios quiere que esté su pueblo… en la frontera, sosteniendo y guardando sus Mandamientos, que son la piedra angular de la existencia moral del hombre. ¿En qué otro sitio podemos estar?

In later years, the creators of "Weimar culture," the ones who survived, cursed the German people for not having listened to them. The tragedy is that the people had listened.

A German Volkisch ethic educates men to make the People the centre of their thought."' (Professor Ernst Bergmann, a Nazi intellectual)

The US once held all its diverse components together on a declaration of "self-evident" truths about a government of/by/for the people. Today truth is not self-evident but self-constructed, fabricated from the moist finger in the winds of opinion research and social media.

I know that there are numberless people who would, to satisfy a whim, destroy God and all the universe.

If people would only reason a little more they would be convinced that life is not worth taking such a deal of trouble about.

Talvez seja sempre a pimenta que torna as pessoas esquentadas [...] e o vinagre que as torna azedas... e a camomila que as torna amargas... e... o caramelo e essas coisas que tornam as crianças suaves. Só queria que as pessoas soubessem disto: não seriam tão sovinas com bomboms...

They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there's anyone left alive!

Je vois personne sur la route, dit Alice. Comme je voudrais avoir d'aussi bons yeux, remarqua le roi d'un ton amer. Voir Personne! Et à cette distance encore! Moi, tout ce dont je suis capable de voir, sous cette lumière, c'est des gens!

Presently she began again. 'I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think--' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) '--but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you

what would become of me? They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here: the great wonder is, that there's any one left alive!

What sort of people live about here? - In THAT direction lives, lives a Hatter and in THAT direction, lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad. - But I don't want to go among mad people. - Oh, you can't help that, we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad. - How do you know I'm mad? - You must be, or you wouldn't have come here.

He perdido la razón? - Me temo que sí. Estás demente. Pero te diré un secreto. Las mejores personas lo están.

people who say "Mason jar" instead of "fruit jar" probably are a little snooty and sleep in pajamas.

People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous," Will said. "There are many stories of spirits haunting the places and people who meant the most to them. In fact, there are more of those than there are revenge stories.

The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.

She hadn't meant to get trapped in a conversation. That was the trouble with offering help to old people.

In truth, it is the simplest act in the world. The trick works because you wish it to. You must remember the most important rule of and successful illusion; First the people must want to believe it.

There is no greater power on this earth than story. People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense--words do.

He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery.

Besides, I'm in the theater, darlin'. I meet an awful lot of strange people. It's an occupational hazard.

Ordinary people were capable of extraordinary bravery.