Quotes About People

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and beautiful. In getting to know nature man exalts the wonder and beauty of life.

The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.

Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.

Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.

By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.

I am not too accusatorial or defensive by nature. I have always been kind of philosophical about it, remembering that it is just a game. People take these things too seriously.

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it