For The People Quotes

It takes zero politically correct people to screw in a lightbulb because they are perpetually in the dark.

I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself.

If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.

Together, we will have one great American future. Our potential is unlimited. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag.

A lot of really smart, wealthy people know that [slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn't worked.]

Do all that you say you are going to do and don't aggress against other people or their property. That's the whole of the law. I can live with a law like that.

People want an idol. They want royalty. They don't want a public servant. Hell no. They want someone to clap for and go, "Oh, he touched my hand at the rally!"

Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

Beautiful people do not just happen

Strong people do not need strong leaders.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.

Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.

People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.

Even if you're the greatest of all time, people are not just going to give it to you. It's a great lesson.

I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We’re not whole.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

I just understand that Im supposed to be one of those people that disrupts the flavor a little bit.

People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

People who are creative often will spend hours doing something and come out of their period of creation and not even notice that hours have passed. In that sense, they're able to time travel.

People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive?

These days many politicians are demanding change. Just like homeless people.

The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.

I've met people and have mentors that have taught me and I'm still trying to get better today.

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.

You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.

A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to.

I have people that are affected by what I do, what I say, and that would be the one place where it gets complicated. But being honest and truthful - I just believe that's the best way to be.

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.

It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

If people like to see me with my shirt off, it's enormously flattering. But that doesn't mean I'm going to take my shirt off all the time.

The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.

When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.

Ask ourselves: How can we serve, nurture and sustain the planet and its people in our business ventures?

You serve your people by leading them to excellence. That's leadership.

James Bevel could do more with young people than any human being on the face of the earth.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.