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Quotes About People

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
~ Beck
America's making a long-term commitment to help the people of Lebanon because we believe every person deserves to live in a free, open society that respects the rights of all.
~ George W. Bush
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
~ Hu Shih
Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.
~ Tina Yothers
We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.
~ Ian Somerhalder
While we still live in a capitalist society, we of course will fight for whatever reforms help make life better for working people.
~ Kshama Sawant
I think that even the Mexican society is a victim of all of this, of these crimes of "cleaning" people, of discarding people.
~ Pope Francis
Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over guns and prisons, vision over dysfunction?
~ Vicki Robin
It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to maintain, without qualification, that we are an economically "free" people.
~ Robert Heilbroner
I guess I'm interested in people and society and what we do collectively in the realm of decisions that shape our world. You know, at least on a human level.
~ Reggie Watts
A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].
~ Wangari Maathai
I know only one Church: it is the society of men.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system but are nevertheless doing useful things in the society.
~ Warren Buffett
As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.
~ Len Wiseman
Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves?
~ Lena Williams
The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.
~ Margaret Halsey
The question now is how best to help the Iraqi people build a democratic and free Iraqi society that ensures respect for the rights of all Iraqis.
~ Mary Robinson
Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.
~ Immanuel Kant
Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people, " Maria said finally.
~ Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die
Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.
~ Justin Simien
Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.
~ Ernest Holmes