For The People Quotes

It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

If you want to scare people, you talk about evil.

New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them.

I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.

To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they'd have been anyway.

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.

I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.

It's hard for me to pry with people I know.

What do we expect from criticism? People appear to want it, but why?

Prestige and premium will also play an important role in the future. But some people define these values differently today.

We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.

Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.

It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half crazy with their own.

These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.

The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined.

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

And, by the way, how come all the people who were so in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament are so opposed to unilateral protection against nukes?

It's difficult to oppress people who have a sense of identity and unity, he says. Our struggle is about being seen as human beings trying to earn our daily bread.

I heard the rumours,but the only blond people here [in Sweden] are the guys. And they all look like Ellen DeGeneres. It's Ellen DeGeneres world, and it's all guys! It's now switched.

Sometimes I become the comedy jukebox. I read the emails, people give me requests.The shows are just amazing; they're packed with people and they're so much fun to do.

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.

I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

I think I'm a different person with different people.

Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.

Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people.

With rare exceptions, people are responsible for what they do.

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast.

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

Prejudice usually can't survive close contact with the people who are supposed to be so despicable, which is why the propagandists for hate always preach separation.

I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

People will only follow you if they see you're ahead, are convinced you know the route, trust you, and want to get there too.

If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people.

The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.

In reply to 'how do I flirt with people?': Just be yourself and not want anything out of anybody. Desire is the killer of all smoothness.

When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.

It's normal that people expect more from the French team.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.