Quotes About People

Now that I've lived through an actual plague, I see why Renaissance paintings are full of naked fat people laying on couches.

9-1-1, what is your emergency? Hello, there are eleven people hanging out together and one of them has the sniffles.

People who snore always fall asleep first.

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

Forty years of emphasizing accounting-style control over things has seen American businesses do little or nothing to develop the capabilities of people. Workers have been viewed as a source of energy and cost, not as a source of ideas.

Such innovation and learning will come only from people who are in touch with the voice of the customer and the voice of the process. It can not come from people who act only on instructions from top managers who are immersed in a fog of information about financial results.

What I believe has happened in American businesses since the 1950s is that managers and operating personnel at all levels have lost sight of people, customers, and processes as top management has turned everyone's attention to accounting results.

The objective of most corporate leaders is to use people to make a great company. My objective is to use the company to make great people. —Ralph C. Stayer

Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out, lights out, knives out!

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt

The reason is that the people know that the Democratic Party is the people's party, and the Republican Party is the party of special interest, and it always has been and always will be.

The higher the sky, the lower the people, he thought as he rang the doorbell. Why did there have to be people in every kind of landscape?

I only have one desire, the ultimate desire is to make our country completely independent, our people completely free, all compatriots have food to eat, clothes to wear, anyone can study.

Freedom for my people, independence for my country, that's all I want, all I understand.

Censorship places us all in subjection, just as under despotism we are all equal … that kind of freedom of the press acts to introduce oligarchy into questions of the spirit. … That [kind of] freedom of the press pushes presumptuousness to the point of forestalling world history, substituting itself for the voice of the people. …

The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

the surly orphan of American politics Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the grim joker in the deck, whose nightrider candidacy [is] a rough approximation of the potential for an American fascism." People

S?d? A?mad Zarr?q said that the truth has the power to penetrate the hearts of people, including those whose hearts have a seal. Humanity has the right to have among us witnesses to the truth, those who are willing to defend the truth no matter how unpopular it may be.

Deification of accidents serves of course as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.