Quotes About People

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

To me it seems that those who are happy in this world are better and more lovable people than those who are not.

It is so mean of people," he exclaimed to himself, "to inflict an injury of this sort, and then shirk facing those whom they have injured; let us hope that, at any rate, they and I may meet in Heaven". But of this he was doubtful, for when people had done so great a wrong as this, it was hardly to be supposed that they would go to Heaven at all - and as for his meeting them in another place, the idea never so much as entered his mind.

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people; it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation was ever hurt by luxury; for, as I said before; it can reach but a very few.

The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another.

If human rights are treated as inborn, or long in preparation, people will not confront the true reasons they have become so powerful to-day and examine whether those reasons are still persuasive.

was nothing known of Sumerian culture; the very existence of a Sumerian people and language was unsuspected. The scholars and archeologists who some hundred years ago began excavating in Mesopotamia were

Religion for them, as Régis Debray put it, is not "the opium of the people, but the vitamin of the weak.

Saw a wedding in the church… and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Great talk among people how some of the Fanatiques do say that the end of the world is at hand, and that next Tuesday is to be the day. Against which, whenever it shall be, good God fit us all!

But I do not see much thorough joy, but only an indifferent one, in the hearts of people, who are much discontented at the pride and luxury of the Court, and running in debt.

folyvást azon gondolkodom, milyen nagyot is fordult mostanában a világ, és hogy az emberek holnap mit meg nem tesznek az ellen, amit ma még félelmükben vagy érdekb?l vallanak és meg is cselekszenek.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

All the misunderstandings that tie the world up and keep people apart were quivering before me at once, waiting for me to untangle them, explain them, and I couldn't. I didn't know the words, the grammar, the syntax.

And on the worlds of five galaxies, now, people delve your imagery and meaning for the answers to the riddles of language, love, and isolation." The three words jumped his sentence like vagabonds on a boxcar.

This God-damn city. If you wanna stay drunk, it sure is the place to come. You can buy drinks at the God-damn bars and you don't have to pay no money. Or anything. And anyplace you go, people always got stuff to smoke or to drink. Jesus." He burped. "I gotta go water the garden. Be back in a minute." He stepped away and headed for the john.

Novels were primarily about relationships. … Their popularity lay in that they belied the loneliness of the people who read them, people essentially hypnotized by the machinations of their own consciousness.

So we've set up I guess you'd call it a commune. Here, in the park. People get food, work together, know they have some sort of protection. We try to be as organic as possible, but that's getting harder and harder. When new people come into Bellona, they can get a chance to learn how things operate here. We don't take in everybody. But when we do, we're very accepting.

Rutherford held that the people were the "fountain-power" of political authority, and that they were the ones who delegated this authority to the magistrates. He also demonstrated that when such authority was abused, the people had the authority to rescind that delegation.

The Government that is ahead of the people will inevitably be dragged down to their level, as the Government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up (p.10).

It's time for people in this country to go, 'Yeah, this is how it's got to be if we are all going to live on the planet, and if this planet is going to sustain itself with us on it, then everything has to change itself drastically.' If it doesn't, we'll see how long it all lasts.

They were earthy people, devoid of refinement.