Quotes About People

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.

I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves that the opposite was true - that the world had once been a splendid, orderly place...and that everything had been slowly, relentlessly falling apart ever since.

All the people saying mean things about me on the Internet are gonna be dead in four hundred and thirty-three days," she said, deadpan.

Most of the people around the entrance were, of course, bellhops and taxi drivers. Guests went in and out. Some were dressed in business suits, others in casual tourist attire. He did not see any commandos in tracksuits.

Maybe this was all down to some supernatural effect, such as grace, that flowed through people's lives even if they didn't understand why.

Markus's mind jumped straight to the most obvious explanation: "Is the president nuking people again?

From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything

We say of some Nations, the People are lazy, but we should say only, they are poor; Poverty is the Fountain of all Manner of Idleness. —DANIEL DEFOE, A Plan of the English Commerce

It had a quaint twentieth-century feel and made Nell oddly nostalgic for the days when dangerousness was a function of mass and bulk. The passives of that era were so fun to watch, with their big, stupid cars and big, stupid guns and big, stupid people.

you made a point of hanging out exclusively with people who had the wit to see and to understand that objective reality, you didn't have to waste a lot of time talking.

There was an odd bending around in back at the extreme limits of culture and politics where back-to-the-land hippies and radical survivalists ended up being the same people, since they spent 99 percent of their lives doing the same stuff.

but it seemed that most of the people of Seattle were still obeying the rules and so he did likewise.

People are my books," Ty said. "But I did bring a couple, in case the people all go to sleep.

Gratitude and obedience. At The Frogs, the relationship between a knight and the people was clearly understood.

But one of the Miasma's perversities was that it made otherwise sane people like him—people who had better things they could have been doing—devote energy to arguing with completely random fuckwits, many of whom probably didn't even believe in their own arguments, some of whom weren't even humans.

enhanced the physics of The Black Sun to make it a little cartoonish, so that particularly obnoxious people can be hit over the head with giant mallets or crushed under plummeting safes before they are ejected.

We are all in trouble.... with a bunch of dead people.

And this is—" "L1, by process of elimination," Luisa said drily, and laughed. "You space people love to count down, I know your ways.

He's like one of these old guys from a disgraced presidential administration, forced out by scandal, who devotes the rest of his life to finding people who will listen to him.

We change the script a little," Madame Ping said, "to allow for cultural differences. But the story never changes. There are many people and many tribes, but only so many stories.