Quotes About People

Hymns were raised to the glory of the nation. The people were good and fine and strong and fair, hardworking and hopeful; also, vain and grasping, greedy and covetous, willfully ignorant and dangerously forgetful.

We call this building the Architects' Revenge. The balconies are designed to be too sunny, too windy, and too dirty. The cinders that hurtle through my living room are capable of putting out an eyeball. But it's a good address. Some of the best people live in this building, several of them blind in one eye.

I think of that word, power, and what it means. It means you feed your people, you help the world. I never understood what else there was to it

There was political correctness, and then there was reality, and the reality was that people were people. -Mr. Perfect

Yet in all the years she'd stared at others, Emma had never seen so many good-looking people in one place before. The nurse…gorgeous. The doctor…gorgeous and so damn sweet. And that deputy guy…well, he went beyond gorgeous, but he was anything but sweet.

Alcuni miti sono storie vere che raggiungono un significato mitico perché le persone di cui raccontano sembrano più grandi della vita e sembrano vivere la loro vita più intensamente delle persone comuni.

It was not the past that broke you. - It was the empty future, the endless string of days filled with none of the people who mattered most.

Survival isn't a destination. It's a journey. And most of the people I help, they're still getting there.

Most people would pull out their smartphones and Google away. Unfortunately, my job -- obsessively locating missing people -- doesn't pay at all, while my side hustle -- bartending part-time at the location of the moment -- doesn't pay well. The result is that my smart phone is an old flip phone with a limited data plan.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters.

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes. From one's own self, no.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.

What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.

One of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. IMPORTANT rules are dictated by our hearts.