People Quotes: Inspirational and Thought-Provoking Words about Humanity

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around"

John Portman, Architect

"Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

George Matthew Adams, Philosopher

"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"A company is only as good as the people it keeps"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored"

Henry Morgan, Criminal

"First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people"

Leo Rosten, Novelist

"Few people have the imagination for reality"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy"

Kathy Bates, Actress

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Ambition is not a vice of little people"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"What good fortune for governments that the people do not think"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own"

Doug Coupland, Author

"It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for"

Mary H. Waldrip, Editor

"The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die"

Plato, Philosopher

"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any"

Alice Walker, Author

"People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense"

Ken Kesey, Author

"In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do"

Olin Miller, Writer

"We're actors. We're the opposite of people"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security"

Mark Hatfield, Politician

"There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant"

Anatole France, Novelist

"These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people"

Confucius, Philosopher

"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office"

Andrew Jackson, President

"I'd be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez. And I know I can do any kind of role. I don't want anybody to say, Oh, she can't pull this off. So those are barriers that you have to overcome"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

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