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Quotes About People

gelozia patetic? a oamenilor ÅŸi ner?bdarea lor în faÅ£a fericirii altora.
~ K?b? Abe
people's pathetic jealousy and impatience with others' happiness.
~ K?b? Abe
Shoulder to shoulder, a coordinated movement of the people, their blood no longer confined in the limited circulation of the body but rolling sweetly and yet still returning through the infinite extent of China.
~ Kafka, Franz
Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty of compassion.
~ Karen Armstrong
We shall often find in our story that the religious behavior of people who have not been major beneficiaries of modernity articulates a strongly felt need for the spiritual
~ Karen Armstrong
It is more than their land that you take away from the people whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see, and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take out their eyes.
~ Karen Blixen
The people call it a miracle; the scientists call it invention. But the invention is miraculous, is it not?
~ Karen Essex
London is good for two things — excellent Scotch and leaving.I miss them both, especially as I often partake of one while doing the other. I find the company stifling, the streets foul smelling and overcrowded, the houses bland and without architectural merit, and the people banal and filled with their own consequence. No matter how often I leave London, I cannot wait to leave it again. My home is in my explorations. Those always welcome me.
~ Karen Hawkins
Bloody hell, were you this annoying with my father?" "I fear I was more so, my lord. I was younger then and could go on and on and on—" "Good. The old bastard deserved a difficult time." "So many people believe.
~ Karen Hawkins
But a story never told is also a danger, particularly to the people in it.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
Years later, my father made a passing reference to the uncanny-valley response—the human aversion to things that look almost but not quite like people. The uncanny-valley response is a hard thing to define, much less to test for. But if true, it explains why the faces of chimps so unsettle some of us.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
You'd think he was a saint," Miss Dixon said. "The way people talk about him. We love dead people. As soon as they die, we start loving them." "Not all of them," said B.J. Miss Dixon looked at him. "Oh, well," she agreed. "Some people are never dead enough.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
People earn the way they are missed.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
Dom decided that when life returned to normal—even after fourteen years, he had to think that it could—he'd follow Cole's example and treat money as easy come, easy go. People were what mattered. You couldn't replace them, and they didn't earn interest. They just slipped away a day at a time, and you had to make the most of every precious moment.
~ Karen Traviss
men. People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same. Their personal demeanors. Their world outlook and political beliefs.
~ Karin Slaughter
Granted, that's maybe two hundred people and some of the more socially engaged hedgehogs, but the story might stir up some interests elsewhere.
~ Karin Slaughter
Nebo: lidé prý vidÄ›li neÅ¡tÄ›stí, netajili se s tím a varovali. Ale to v politice neplatí, jestliže to nevedlo k ?in?m a jestliže tyto ?iny nebyly úsp?šné.
~ Karl Jaspers
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
~ Karl Marx
Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.
~ Karl Marx
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
~ Karl Marx
The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.
~ Karl Marx
To make the society [which of course consists of non-workers] happy and people easier under the meanest circumstances, it is requisite that great numbers of them should be ignorant as well as poor; knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our desires, and the fewer things a man wishes for, the more easily his necessities may be supplied. [3] What Mandeville
~ Karl Marx
Government hears only its own voice … It knows it hears only its own voice and yet it deceives itself that it hears the people's voice.
~ Karl Marx
Religion is the moan of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, as it is the spirit of spiritless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
~ Karl Marx