Quotes About People

Architecture (is) a theatre stage setting where the leading actors are the people, and to dramatically direct the dialogue between these people and space is the technique of designing.

All authority belongs to the people.

One of the best-kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

In the busy haunts of men.

The people are the city.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you chose to be with, and the laws you choose to obey.

If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

Fame is but the breath of the people, and that often unwholesome.

Half the secret of getting along with people is consideration of their values; the other half is tolerance in one's own views.

You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?...Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Biography is higher gossip.

In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people, with their wisdom and unwisdom.

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities.