Quotes About People

That's the future. City-states rammed with again people huddling up against hospitals and looking up in terror for the big storm that will come and go and leave them floating facedown in thirteen feet of shit. And I can't do anything about it.

Come on," said the Director. "You are all completely mad people who mess around with technology and weird social theory for fun until your brains shit themselves and you fall over. Any of you could have done this.

Adam knew it was childish, but he rationalized it in this way: carelessly harming other people was a decent stand-in for baseline human interaction.

Your attachments to objects, status, your culture, and even other people prevent you from being free

You must teach people to find meaning in their suffering, and in so doing they will be able to turn their personal tragedies into personal triumphs.

I'm not going to be able to sleep a wink tonight. I hate shelters. People coughing and snoring and hacking up who-knows-what. It's a nightmare. But I do have clean teeth.

I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. It's that way with people, too, he said, only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.

This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since... I knew too that this new war was not even new but was only the old one come again. And what caused it? It was caused, I thought, by people failing to love one another, failing to love their enemies.

The people didn't really want to be saints of self-deprivation and hatred of the world. They knew that the world would sooner or later deprive them of all it had given them, but still they liked it.

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

And as John Adams told the Massachusetts militia in 1789, "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." There

The next time you find yourself in the midst of some national hysteria with sensible people losing their heads, with legislatures in panic and with the media buying it all and amplifying it with a kind of megaphone effect, remember this: Remember that a people—even the most sensible people—can all lose their heads at once.

As Chesterton once put it unkindly, 'Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe anything.

Israel is the world's only Jewish state. To apply to the state of the Jews a double standard that you apply to none other, to judge one people in a way you judge no other, to single out that one people for condemnation and isolation—is to engage in a gross act of discrimination.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

I know this: that in your own hearts and your own souls, you are as much responsible for the Vietnam War as I am for killing these people.

Music is its own dimension and it reaches people at a level that is beneath their DNA.

Music is its own dimension and it reaches people at a level that is beneath their DNA. Nothing else brings about a corporate reaction like music. It exposes what and who we worship.

They'd lost the most important thing and he gave it back to them. He loved this country, he loved these people, and he loved my mom and he loved me, but that didn't earn him his legacy. He is still talked about today because he gave these people something no one had ever offered before. No government. No military. No warlord. No rebellion... He gave them hope - the currency of love - and they loved him for it.

Spotlight the song and give it back to people. Put it in their mouths. Songs don't belong to us. A song is a light we shine on others, not a light we shine on us.

Enrique Peñalosa with a big and simple idea: that urban design should be used to make people happier.

It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. The sense of justice dies slowly in a people. They grow used to the unthinkable, and sometimes they may look back and even wonder when things changed. They will not find a day or a time or a place. Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.

People can't be changed by writ or transformed by court decree.