Quotes About People

Yet the grinding logic of austerity—passing on the bankers' bills to the people in the form of public sector layoffs, school closures, and the like—had not yet been normalized.

Democracy isn't the work of the market's invisible hand; it is the work of real hands.

are symptoms of the same underlying sickness: a dominance-based logic that treats so many people, and the earth itself, as disposable.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. —MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. "Beyond Vietnam," 1967

Oh dear, Laurence said; he felt rather awkward explaining that the main attraction was the abundance of harbor prostitutes and cheap liquor. Well, a city has a great many people in it, and thus various entertainments provided in close proximity, he tried. Do you mean such as more books? Temeraire said.

The Staryk didn't know anything of keeping records: I suppose it was only to be expected from people who didn't take on debts and were used to entire chambers wandering off and having to be called back like cats.

A nation is people as well," Alosha said. "More people than just the few you love best yourself.

Are people the only holy land?

What happens to Peace when people fight? (She hides her face.) What does she dream of? (Better people.) Does she ever give up?

There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

You may not be able to control other people . . . but you can control how you react to them and their actions. This is an easy thing to say but much more difficult to do.

What of the Athenian last year on whose bosom a committee hung a medal to say to the world here is a champion heavyweight poet? He stood on a two-masted schooner and flung his medal far out on the sea bosom. "And why not? Has anybody ever given the ocean a medal? Who of the poets equals the music of the sea? And where is a symbol of the people unless it is the sea?

Dust of the feet And dust of the wheels, Wagons and people going, All day feet and wheels. Now... ...Only stars and mist

He imagined this program as a joyous ritual, bringing gifted young people together to have better and better children.

Perhaps part of your problem is that you've been reading the commentators and not the people they were commenting on. A common mistake but fatal when you're trying to learn something.

Las esperanzas las guardan las personas, pero el destino lo reparte el diablo.

People eyed one another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.

Sometimes, when the gods aren't looking and destiny loses its way, even good people get a taste of good luck in their lives.

Truth is always safe from people.

Minden titok annyit ér, amennyit azok az emberek jelentenek számunkra, akik elÅ'l rejtegetjük Å'ket.

I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?

No me pareció que fuese feliz en París, aunque me dio la impresión de que era de esas personas que no pueden ser felices en ninguna parte.

I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.

What killed him was his loyalty to people who, when their time came, betrayed him. Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.