People Quotes

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it.

Unknown

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Franklin P. Adams

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The people who think Tiny Tim is strange are the same ones who think it odd that I drive without pants.

Child Age 15

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Douglas Adams, Salmon of Doubt, 2002

People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

Charles Lam

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)

People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita.

Thomas Jefferson

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.

Elisabeth Kubler - Ross

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that.

Tom Lehre

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Will Rogers

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

H. L. Mencken

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992

I envy people who drink - At least they know what to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.

Frank H. Crane

If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.

Simeon Strunsky

Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Philip Guedalla

Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

George Eliot, Middlemarch

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

George Gallup

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Carl Sagan

People do not lack strength, they lack will.

Victor Hugo

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.

Benjamin Franklin

For if you suffer your people to be ill - Educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1

If you treat people right they will treat you right - Ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Malcolm S. Forbes

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.

William Inge

There isnothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.

H. R. Schaffe