Quotes About People

The other two are rich and noble; examples of virtue rarely make their home among people like that.

Anyway," Peter continued. "I got the most amazing welcome. These people are desperate to learn about God!" "Well, ain't that a lick on the dick," said BG.

People were so strange and sometimes you got tired just thinking about them.

Ach,' she says. 'There ain't nuffink in this world but men and women, is there? So you got to care about 'em, ain't you, else what you got to care about?

Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.

Everything I saw was in such perfect harmony with the landscape, and the people fitted in so well with their surroundings and lived a life in such perfect accord with their needs and beliefs - that the whole structure formed a solid entity with never a crack, and at times I began to wonder whether any other way of life really existed. Was I living in a dream, an illusion (or at times a nightmare)? No false note broke the spell and brought me back to myself.

The search has already brought one old friend back to you," he said. "Who knows what else lies in store?" Church started up after Labor Day. I was obliged to attend and wear a special blue name tag so that people would know that they could ask me about the search.

Tragedy, in its full and life-altering form, happened to other people.

And I'll stop with the lecture now. I don't like people much—they irritate and annoy me. But I'm fascinated by them anyway.

The first people on the historic mission to Mars are probably alive today, perhaps learning about astronomy in high school.

Las calles, la plaza y los edificios no hacían un pueblo, ni tan siquiera le daban fisionomía. A un pueblo lo hacían sus hombres y su historia. [...] Por las casas que flanqueaban pasaron hombres honorables, que hoy eran sombras, pero que dieron al pueblo y al valle un sentido, una armonía, unas costumbres, un ritmo, un modo propio y peculiar de vivir.

Por miedo a ser castigados o por miedo a no recibir una recompensa empezamos a tratar de complacer a otras personas. Intentamos ser buenos porque la gente mala no recibe recompensas y se la castiga.

What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it? After all, shadows are cast by objects and people. There is the shadow of my sword. But there are also shadows of trees and living creatures. Would you like to denude the earth of all the trees and all the living beings in order to satisfy your fantasy of rejoicing in the naked light?

She had a passion for all people who did anything to perfection.

Well, now,' the latter replied pensively, 'they're people like any other people...they love money, but that has always been so...Mankind loves money, whatever it's made of -leather, paper, bronze, gold. Well, they're light-minded...well, what of it...mercy sometimes knocks at their hearts...ordinary people...In general, reminiscent of the former ones...only the housing problem has corrupted them...' Chapter 12

Ruin, therefore, is not caused by lavatories but it's something that starts in people's heads. So when these clowns start shouting Stop the ruin! - I laugh!' 'I swear to you, I find it laughable! Every one of them needs to hit himself on the back of the head and then when he has knocked all the hallucinations out of himself and gets on with sweeping out backyards - which is his real job - all this ruin will automatically disappear

I said that any sort of power is coercion of the people, and that the time will come when there will be no power, neither of the caesars, nor of any other sort of authority. Man will move on to the kingdom of truth and justice where no kind of power will be needed at all.

He's clever, thought Ivan. You have to admit, there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia. No denying that!

the time? Do you call everyone that?" "Everyone," answered the prisoner. "There are no bad people in the world.

What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it? After all, shadows are cast by objects and people. There is the shadow of my sword. But there are also shadows of trees and living creatures. Would you like to denude the earth of all the trees and all the living beings in order to satisfy your fantasy of rejoicing in the naked light? You are a fool.

The trouble is,' the bound man went on, not stopped by anyone, 'that you are too closed off and have definitively lost faith in people. You must agree, one can't place all ones affection in a dog. Your life is impoverished, Hegemon.

The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egoistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment

I invent stories, confront one with another, and by this means I ask questions. The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless.