Quotes About People

The serious fact is that the bulk of the really important things economics has to teach are things that people would see for themselves if they were willing to see. —Frank Knight, "The Role of Principles in Economics and Politics

Strange though it sounds, if we're "running out" of anything, it's people.

The church's greatest mistakes occur when the people of God honor what a leader says without examining that instruction in the light of Scripture.

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I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.

You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.

Every person is a precious gift, and we are all like little children who yearn for acceptance, safety, and unconditional love.

We only hate the results of people. But people, Henry, aren't just results. They're a process.

It made me uncomfortable. I guess I've always been afraid of people who can be agile without grace.

Honesty is a very expensive gift; don't expect it from cheap people.

Books about business deal with functions and strategies—the mechanics of running a successful company," he said. "Fiction teaches you about human beings—how they think, how they behave, what's important to them. I'm more interested in people than I am in how businesses work.

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Your country baffles me: a luxurious unharmed lotus land in which great hordes of handsome dynamic people either wallow in deep gloom, or play like overexcited children, or fall to work like all the devils in hell, while the press steadily drones detestation of the government and despair of the system. I don't understand how America works, any more than Frances Trollope or Dickens did, but it's an ongoing miracle of sorts.

For the rest the Navy is a third-rate career for third-rate people, offering a sort of skimpy security in return for twenty or thirty years of a polite penal servitude.

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

You must be lonely. Only when I'm with other people.

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Never once have you taken courage in your heart to arm with your people for battle, or go into ambuscade with the best

Äneias, geehrt wie ein gott im volke der Troer (Ilias; Elfter Gesang V. 58)

There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.

The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary. Thus, the future of democracy depended on the people, and their growing consciousness of what was the decent way to relate to their fellow human beings all over the world.

So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.

Missing from such histories are the countless small actions of unknown people that led up to those great moments. When we understand this, we can see that the tiniest acts of protest in which we engage may become the invisible roots of social change.