Quotes About People

As a people, Americans are remarkably familiar with all facts which make in their own favor.

The American people are not remarkable for moderation. They despise halfness. They will go with him who goes farthest and stay with him who stays longest. What the country thinks of half-men and half-measures is seen by the last election. We repudiate all such men and all such measures.

the American people are disposed often to be generous rather than just.

That Congress saw what was right, but distrusted the enlightenment of the loyal masses; but what was forborne in distrust of the people must now be done with a full knowledge that the people expect and require it. The members go to Washington fresh from the inspiring presence of the people.

The people told me, however, that the big ear was not only a man, but a great man, a genius. But I never believed in the people when they spake of great men - and I hold to my belief that it was a reversed cripple, who had too little of everything, and too much of one thing.

Books for general reading always smell badly. The odor of common people hangs about them.

I pass through this people and keep mine eyes open: they do not forgive me for do not envying their virtues. They bite at me, because I say unto them that for small people, small virtues are necessary - and because it is hard for me to understand that small people are necessary!

The Church and morality say, "A race, a people is destroyed by vice and luxury." My reconstituted reason says: when a people is perishing, physiologically degenerating, the effects of this are vice and luxury (that is, the need for stronger and stronger, more and more frequent stimuli, the kind of stimuli that are familiar to every exhausted nature).

Nothing is beautiful, only people are beautiful: all aesthetics is based on this naïveté, this is its first truth. Let us immediately add its second: the only thing ugly is a degenerating person, - this defines the realm of aesthetic judgment.

O povo, contudo, dizia-me que a orelha grande era não só um homem, mas um grande homem, um gênio. Eu, porém, nunca acreditei no povo quando ele me falava de grandes homens, e sustento a minha idéia de que era um aleijado às avessas que tinha pouquíssimo de tudo e uma coisa em demasia.

The great majority of men have no right to life, and serve only to disconcert the elect among our race; I do not yet grant the unfit that right. There are even unfit peoples.

Books for the general reader are always ill-smelling books, the odour of paltry people clings to them. Where the populace eat and drink, and even where they reverence, it is accustomed to stink.

For today the petty people have become lord and master: they all preach submission and acquiescence and prudence and diligence and consideration and the long et cetera of petty virtues.

Viewed from a distant star, our planet would appear to be an unhappy planet, full of unhappy repulsive people, dissatisfied with themselves, with the Earth, with Life itself and knowing no greater pleasure than causing pain, to themselves and to others.

It's a far cry from that, I just meant that in general people say all sorts of nonsense about me, but it's mostly out of jealousy. Don't you go believing anything of the stort. They're denouncing me me in order to deflect suspicion from themselves, but I myself can denounce them.

It's a far cry from that, I just meant that in general people say all sorts of nonsense about me, but it's mostly out of jealousy. Don't you go believing anything of the sort. They're denouncing me me in order to deflect suspicion from themselves, but I myself can denounce them.

It's a far cry from that, I just meant that in general people say all sorts of nonsense about me, but it's mostly out of jealousy. Don't you go believing anything of the sort. They're denouncing me in order to deflect suspicion from themselves, but I myself can denounce them.

Our memories are filled with the hundreds of people who have walked through our lives, touched us in some way, and then seemingly disappeared from the face of the earth. Time erodes our willingness to promise once again to keep in touch, and without willing it so, the Kleenex promises of youth give way to the carefully chosen holiday cards of

He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated the most.

the freedom of a people or a country be defined as absolute independence, is it not obvious that in a world like ours freedom cannot exist, not only because of inevitable economic interdependences, but because of the part played by pressure, or, less politely, by blackmail, at all levels of international intercourse?

Ver la cultura como una conversación nos ayuda a centrarnos en términos finitos: quiénes pueden decir algo de interés para quiénes, y cómo, dónde, cuándo, reunirlos. Nos ayuda a aceptar que, en todo el ancho mundo, las personas que van a leer un nuevo libro son tan pocas que hasta se pudiera hacer una lista.

As a result of being on 'SVU' and 'Homicide' all these years, there's a lot of people who don't know I used to do stand-up. When they see me onstage, it's a surprise, and it's revelatory. I'm happy because I can do my old material, so everybody wins.

Driving in Chicago wins over New York; people are so fast. It's almost like there's a subliminal street racing culture here. They drive like comic book characters.

I love Fayetteville. I like hills and vistas and hardworking people and fighting snow in winter and chiggers in the summer.