Quotes About People

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.

Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues.

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

The German people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war, but does not fear it. It loves peace but also loves its honor and freedom

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war.

Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing it is religion.

We put labels on people and fight wars over them. If we truly want harmony, we have to get past the labels.

There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.

Funny,' Will said, as they picked their way through. 'Things are absolutely awful and yet people look much happier than usual. Look at them all. Bubbling.' 'They are English,' Merriman said. 'Quite right,' said Will's father. 'Splendid in adversity, tedious when safe. Never content, in fact. We're an odd lot….

A boy asked if the caps on the oxen's horns kept them from poking people. "They are just for decoration," answered Gene. "If he wanted to poke you with them on, he'd just make a larger hole.

I was kidding. Even I'm not that promiscuous. You guru people have no sense of humor." "I'm not a guru people, and I happen to have a very well developed sense of humor. Why else would I still be talking to you?

The design is about expectations. Everybody wants something from beautiful people. From beautiful women, especially. But I think they're most stunning when they refuse to give anyone anything.

It is probably more adaptive, at least in the short run, to believe that you are to blame and deserve cruel treatment, than that you are helpless and dependent on people who wish you harm.

Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live with.

Event succeeds event; accidents, people, happenings, one after another come toward us. Each must be met and dealt with. . . . For this process of adjustment is life, and the mastery of it is the art of living. . . . —KARL DE SCHWEINITZ, The Art of Helping People out of Trouble, 1924