Quotes About People

We ourselves, a revolutionary government, part of the people, have learned by always asking the people and without ever isolating ourselves from them. Because he who governs, yet isolates himself in an ivory tower and tries to lead the people with formulas, is lost and is on the road to despotism. The people and the government should always be one.

Mark's story of Jesus stands virtually alone among the literary achievements of antiquity for one reason: it is a narrative for and about the common people. The Gospel reflects the daily realities of disease, poverty, and disenfranchisement that characterized the social existence of first-century Palestine's "other 95%.

He said that I was his person," she told him. "He said that we all have people in the world we belong to. Connect with. And that I was his. He said that there was no denying it.

There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

I love ghosts; I prefer ghosts to some people.

For some reason the mundanity of it all offended Gideon. You'd think people would have the good grace to dress up for an assassination.

So they pretended on paper that you were a chimp and tinkered with your eyes, and the animal rights people got hold of the news, and they were incensed on your behalf. Or they would've been, if you'd been a monkey. Do

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

Do you know what boundaries are? The best, sanest people on the planet do.

I think I cry because it always strikes me as sacred, all those people going by. People who decided simply to live their truth, even when doing so wasn't simple. Each and every one of them had the courage to say, This is who I am even if you'll crucify me. Just like Jesus did.

I happen to believe America is dying of loneliness, and we as people have are into the stream of convenience and turn away from our deep lives.

When people say 'I quote' and pause, they come across as scary-level intellectuals. Let's face it, nobody wants to mess with the 'I quote' types.

I am a businessman. To me, people only do things out of self-interest.

Of course, in Delhi nobody gives a damn about such small fights. Until blood is spilled, people remain cool and sip their lattes.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

What's this LinkedIn? Is that like Facebook for old people?

You just can't escape it. This country is full of people who want to make their noise and, worse, make you listen.

The Income Tax has made more Liars out of the American people than Golf has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a Crook or a Martyr.

I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

How about laws that make it harder to shoot people and easier to vote?

The same media people that claim violence on TV doesn't influence people, are perfectly willing to sell you advertising time.

...but people become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them...