Quotes About People

The irrational behavior of the few would not be offset by the rational behavior of the many. People could be systematically wrong, and so markets could be systematically wrong, too.

So many problems occur when people fail to be obedient when they are supposed to be obedient, and fail to be creative when they are supposed to be creative. The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours. It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.

The one shot America had at behaving well, and thus saving itself, was to remove the feeling that "the government" was imposing restrictions on people and re-instill the idea that people

Some stories, some people, deserve their length and span. They merit a novel-length treatment, have things to tell and other lives to illuminate.

of our jobs are bad jobs, but they're the kind held by people in the background. People who are getting by. People who don't play pool that well.

What?' 'Wherever there are good people,' he said, 'there are also bad. The world is heavy. If it doesn't want to follow where you're leading, then in the end the dream will die. What replaces a dream is often thin and dry for a time. People do not show their best sides in such circumstances.

That's what you people do, isn't it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.

We need to keep government small, but we also need to keep the influence of big business small, and we need to keep the power in the hands of the people, where it belongs. Big government and big business aren't the only two alternatives.

But people may do great good accidentally, though with evil intentions - conversely people may do great evil though having the best of intentions.

have taken place in my lifetime on this planet of ours, then you will see things quite as clearly in black and white as I do. You can only judge people by their actions, not by their protestations. People act for good or they act for ill and those who do great ill are bad and those who do great good—they are good.

If you grow up with uncertainty, you deal with people only on a daily basis, to be even safer on an hourly basis. You do not concern yourself with what you must or should remember about them. You are on your own.

I can never understand someone by his strengths. Nothing is revealed there. I can only understand people by their weaknesses.

This history of mine,' Herodotus says, 'has from the beginning sought out the supplementary to the main argument.' What you find in him are cul-de-sacs within the sweep of history—how people betray each other for the sake of nations, how people fall in love....

If you grow up with uncertainty you deal with people only on a daily basis, to be even safer on an hourly basis. You do not concern yourself with what you must or should remember about them.

There is nothing sacred about the existing system. All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people.

Sporadic rebellion would be replaced by class-conscious revolution. Instead of burning down the manor, the workers would expropriate it and put it to use for the collective benefit of the common people, the ones who built it in the first place.

Why are they blockading Cuba? Because no other country has done more for its people. It's the hatred of the ideas that Cuba represents.

It's funny, I thought, how the people who seem the meanest, the people we want nothing to do with, might be in the most pain.

Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most important, other people. Cooking is one of the more beautiful forms that human generosity takes; that much I sort of knew. But the very best cooking, I discovered, is also a form of intimacy.

R. D. Laing once said there are three things human beings are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds.

Polyface is proof that people can sometimes do more for the health of a place by cultivating it rather than by leaving it alone.

When one is screening raw footage of people in costume tripping on mushrooms and dancing sloppily to a reggae band, a little goes a long way

We were martini people." I asked if he was a spiritual man. "Not really, though I think he would have liked to have been.

D. Laing once said there are three things human beings are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds. Put me down as two for three.