Quotes About People

Theory becomes realized among a people only in so far as it represents the realization of that people's needs.

Defining by a general law the expenditures on the...school....is a very different thing from appointing the state as educator of the people. Government and church should rather be equally excluded from any influence on the school.

There are more idiots in the world than bright ones, but it's the odd good one that makes a big difference.

I'd prefer to have a world of grumpy considerate people than happy selfish ones.

There were doorways between this world and the next, she said, but only certain people could pass through them.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!

News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.

I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.

Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut of an excellent writer.

I promised myself I would never be one of those people who complained about "Oh man, lots of people are interested in our movie and now I gotta talk about it."

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.

The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.

Underneath this little stone Lies Robert Earl of Huntington; No other archer was so good - And people called him Robin Hood. Such outlaws as he and his men Will England never see again.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

I myself was and still am a child of the people. It was not for the capitalists that I undertook this struggle; it was for the German working man that I took my stand.