People Quotes

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
William John Bennett
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First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.
Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
Alfred A. Montapert
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffe
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
Epictetus
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
Anon.
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.
Anthony Brandt
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self - Restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.
Author Unknown
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want them to achieve, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George Smith Patton, Jr.
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.
Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that.
Tom Lehre
The voice of the people is the voice of God. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
Alcuin
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet
Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
Some of us just go along... until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us - - Or should I say we refuse to let them intimidate us.
Peggy Lee
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
William A. Orton
Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Righteous people have no sense of humor.
Bertolt Brecht
There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.
Carl Van Vechten
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - Except when they are different.
Nancy Banks - Smith
A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
Stanley Baldwin
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.
Agnes de Mille
It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting - Their geographical situation has been equally problematic.
Shimon Peres
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
Anton Chekhov
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Jascha Heifetz
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle
People are more easily led than driven.
David Harold Fink
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson