People Quotes

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth"

"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them"

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"We do not judge the people we love"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise"

Robert Frost, Poet

"If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving"

Robert Frost, Poet

"Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights"

Whitey Herzog, Athlete

"People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

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