Quotes About People

And of course, if they do recognize that they are living through a historical crisis, it's often too late—because, like it or not, the primary way that ordinary people create this distinct genre of history is by dying.

to make your mind more innovative, you have to place it inside environments that share that same network signature: networks of ideas or people that mimic the neural networks of a mind exploring the boundaries of the adjacent possible.

Like all apocalyptic writers, the author despises people in general and fantasizes about the destruction of everyone different from him and his chosen group.

The first step toward wisdom is the realization that the laws of the universe don't care about you. The next is the realization that this does not imply that life is meaningless, because people care about you, and vice versa.

Unlike ascetic and puritanical regimes, humanistic ethics does not second-guess the intrinsic worth of people seeking comfort, pleasure, and fulfillment—if people didn't seek them, there would be no people.

democracy should be understood not as the answer to the question "Who should rule?" (namely, "The People"), but as a solution to the problem of how to dismiss bad leadership without bloodshed.

nonstate conflicts kill far fewer people than conflicts that involve a government, perhaps a quarter as many. Again, this is not surprising, since goverments almost by definition are in the violence business.

As the most famous product of the Enlightenment, the Declaration of Independence, put it, in order to secure the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, governments are instituted among people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

evil, in fact, is perpetrated by people who are mostly ordinary and who respond to their circumstances, including provocation by the victim, in ways that they feel are reasonable and just.

Moving from philosophy to psychology, we discover a big problem with the claim that most of our thinking is metaphorical: people effortlessly transcend the metaphors implicit in their language.

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

Love - is when you wish all the best to the people you love, when you put their interests and well-being above their own. Always.

Love is a great emotion, but I believe its not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

Wish you would learn to love people and use things and not the other way around

I love getting out on the streets and helping people.

If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn't come from the people. It comes from God.

I love life. There's always something to overcome, new people to meet... You've just got to find your bliss and go after it. That's where the drive is, that's how you find your special place.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.

I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's like a conspiracy.

I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.