For The People Quotes
Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum.
Don't scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you.
Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it.
A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.
Sometimes I have wished my insults were slaps or lashes; I've wanted to hit people in the face and make them see, if only for a day, what I see each day I help people.
No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant.
There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.
Let us live most happily, free from hatred in the midst of the hateful; Let us remain free from hatred in the midst of people who hate.
I don't wanna go on vacation. There's nothing about it that appeals to me. People look forward to doing that; I look forward to getting up every day and doing something.
The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and people use it all of the time for a variety of cures and to avoid illnesses.
Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.
The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.
The people who control America today make decisions like drunkards. They do not understand what they are doing at all.
We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.
You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!
Just because someone is single doesn't mean they're lonely. Some people are in relationships and they've forgotten what happiness is.
You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.
It's about having personality...it's not about being the bad guy, it's about entertaining people.
Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.
The failure to invest in civil justice is directly related to the increase in criminal disorder. The more people feel there is injustice the more it becomes part of their psyche.
People, even children, aren't really afraid of change. They're afraid of not being prepared for change.
I think that the ability of people to accept new things is growing, and that's good for all of us.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love, the world is full of magic. What they don't know is that when you discover the universe is full of magic, you fall in love with the world.
For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.
I want to tell people that family violence happens to anybody, no matter how nice your house is, no matter how intelligent you are.
It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives