For The People Quotes

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

From when you are young, through middle age, you must grow to the point that you glow, so that your light lets people feel the blessings, the virtues, and the happiness.

It is impossible to carry the American people along with you on a program of caution to forestall a threatening position.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

Life is too precious to spend it with important people.

I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.

You're always fascinated by what you do, and how other people look at it.

Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.

Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.

Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something.

The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified.

for many people traveling can have deep psychological meaning.

Fundraising is proclaiming what we believe in such a way that we offer other people an opportunity to participate with us in our vision and mission.

What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God’s people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.

The only thing I can promise is my best and when I bring my best, you're going to have to bring six people to beat me.

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

Dating is primarily a numbers game.... People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That's just the way it is.

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything.

I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want.

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises.

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

To have people like my work, even if it's my old work, I can't ask for nothing nicer than that.

Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.

People think the FDA is protecting them -- it isn't. What the FDA is doing, and what people think it's doing, are as different as night and day.

There are people who make things happen. There are people who watch things happen and then there are people who ask well, what in the heck happened?

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

I am sick and tired of the negative, dark, divisive dangerous vision and behavior of people who support Donald Trump.

If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic.