People Quotes

"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure"

Roy L. Smith, Clergyman

"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life"

Doug Coupland, Author

"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is 'take-home pay' because home is the only place they can afford to go with it"

Charles A. Jaffe, Businessman

"There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves"

Jane Austen, Writer

"City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power"

Julian Casablancas, Musician

"The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power"

Andrew Jackson, President

"I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

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