Quotes About People

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.

Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

I'm so frightened of these two people, Bill and Hillary [Clintons], that I'm making an all-out effort to make the truth known about these horrific practices.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure.

I will prove my innocence, ... I guarantee the Filipino people that I will be vindicated because the truth is on my side.

Gore was one of the last of Tennessee's Roosevelt Democrats to hold office; men unafraid of the word liberal, if it meant they stood up against powerful corporations and political interest in favor of ordinary people.

Democracy implies government by the people. Aristocracy implies a government of the rich … and in those words are contained the sum of party distinction.

Was unhappiness really so invisible? Or did people simply prefer to turn away, as if from lepers?

Sometimes people change, said a voice inside him. And sometimes they don't.

But if the Wall kept proving itself useless, why did more of it get built?" Yu's voice dips even lower. "Because it seemed an obvious solution. It made both the emperor and the people think something was being done. And we have all, at some point, confused doing something—anything—with actually solving the problem.

Helen ran down a flight of stairs at the back of the house and into the garden. In the darkness she stopped and stood trembling. It seemed to her that the world was full of meaningless people saying words.

at bottom he did not believe the people wanted reform; they wanted a ten percent raise in wages. The public mind was a thing too big, too complicated and inert for a vision or an ideal to get at and move deeply.

In the lives of working people the dramatic and vita moments of death and birth are passed over in silence.

The problem is never to find and know a little the people whose stories are interesting. There are too many stories. The great difficulty is to tell the stories.

Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?" They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.