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Quotes About People

When India feels that the West cares as much about slavery as it does about pirated DVDs, it will dispatch people to the borders to stop traffickers.
~ Sheryl WuDunn
I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.
~ Shimon Peres
He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible.
~ Shimon Peres
That power is found in the people. I am able to overcome any kind of challenge so long as I am working together with the people.
~ Shinzo Abe
I have no intention of conducting governance for the benefit of specific organizations or individuals; instead I will conduct governance on behalf of the entire people -- the ordinary people who live by the sweat of their brows, love their families, wish to improve their own communities and hometowns, and who want to believe in the future of Japan.
~ Shinzo Abe
He had seen how people came a cropper by giving way to impulse. It was to his judiciousness, at every turn, that he owed the fact that nothing terrible had ever happened to him.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
~ Shirley MacLaine
People can be your biggest asset or your biggest liability.
~ Shiv Khera
The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in its wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good; that is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous...To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them... To ignore them is not good; that is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
There is a sense of self, of character, and of personal self-worth and kindness and hopefulness and embrace that is characteristic of such people, educated and noneducated alike. My
~ Sidney Poitier
I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.
~ Sidney Sheldon
I have met a few Casanovas I like and a few I have not liked - and I hope to meet a few more.
~ Sienna Miller
But I didn't realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.
~ Sigrid Undset
In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.
~ Silas House
This involved a historic battle against anything posing a limit to the full exploitation of the laborer, starting with the web of relations that tied the individuals to the natural world, to other people, and to their own bodies
~ Silvia Federici
Somos un compendio de contradicciones, de afectos, de amigos, de malentendidos: somos monstruos. [...] Somos también lo que hacen de nosotros las personas. No queremos a las personas por lo que son, sino por lo que nos obligan a ser.
~ Silvina Ocampo
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
~ Simeon Strunsky
A determinist perspective designed to ensure the people's docile acceptance of the circumstances of their existence: the king, the state, the land?
~ Simon
My faith in the people governing us,' he had said, 'is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the People governed, is, on the whole, illimitable.
~ Simon Callow
Not many universities, opera houses, or aid agencies say no to sugar daddies. We think European soccer needs these people.
~ Simon Kuper
On Waugh) As a protective device against the bruising contact of life, he was determined to see events and people as a fction from which he was separate.
~ Simon Leys
I chose to help people, because there'd been no-one there to help me when I needed it.
~ Simon R. Green
There'll always be small, bitter people ready to follow some charismatic leader who promises them peace and happiness through justified violence and the killing of scapegoats.
~ Simon R. Green