For The People Quotes

Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people.

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art

It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.

The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.

You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to make a distinction.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

People with good hearts are the ultimate winners.

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

I am more interested in what moves people, than how they move.

An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?

We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.

The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

People need to know what's going on. People need to wake up.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.

The great thing about the movies ... is-you're giving people little ... tiny pieces of time ... that they never forget.

You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.

The Secret to a long and healthy life is to be stress-free. Be grateful for everything you have, stay away from people who are negative stay smiling and keep running.

I'm very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it's a different feeling I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it's because it's something I love to do.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.

The more I looked at people, the more I hated them.

Work hard at everything you do. Never give up. Never quit. Many people have talents but without the hard work you won't get anywhere.

I like to kill people in my dreams, so when I fall asleep be sure not to come too close.

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

People do complain about the way I act on stage... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.

Graffiti writers will never stop. They'll just evolve. It's interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

I'll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.

I hope people see us not just as a football player, but also as human beings, we are not machines!

When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.

The best way to help people is to see the best in them.

The worst crime is faking it.