People Quotes: Inspirational and Thought-Provoking Words about Humanity...

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt"

"We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"The most dangerous people are the ignorant"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience"

John Portman, Architect

"Medicines are only fit for old people"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little"

Ben Sweetland, Author

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?"

Cicero, Philosopher

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws"

Plato, Philosopher

"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work"

Robert Frost, Poet

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it"

Robert Frost, Poet

"When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"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

"Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

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