For The People Quotes

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

We only think about the difficult people and the horrible things that happen. That's what gets all the media attention.

There are certain people who people think are enlightened. The problem with the word enlightenment is what you mean by it.

I've always loved the Sangha. I have the deepest, deepest respect for them. I'm very sorry that in the West people don't appreciate what the monastic order is about.

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.

It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.

What people say doesn't really matter. It's best to just brush it off and move on.

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

Not everybody's the perfect person in the world. I mean everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever. I think that people need a second chance.

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

I always stay in the urban comedy genre because it just never gets old. It's one of those things that people watch, again and again. This is that kind of movie. It gives you longevity.

Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words.

It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

Many people believe everything others say, even though what they see with their own eyes, should be enough to tell them otherwise.

We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Be more tolerant of the difficult people. They're the creative ones. They're not happy with the status quo.

I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor.As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not put funding into a company and leave it to other people.

I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.

People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.

I do not in fact use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people's memories for a while.

Botswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of blue-grey). Not many people know this.

What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.

Mr. Tulip lived his life on that thin line most people occupy just before they haul off and hit someone repeatedly with a wrench.

I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.

The best research you can do is to talk to people.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other people.

I always want to work with people that I can grow with.

There must be public servants who are working regularly among the people.

We very constantly run this campaign to encourage people to go and get Identity Documents, to register, and so on. We'll continue to do that.

One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question

Anyone starting to garden... would be wise to look around carefully and see what grows well in other people's yards.

Vote for the USDP because only the USDP can bring peace and tranquility to the country-only vote for the USDP, don't vote for the wrong people.

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.

A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.

The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.

The object of government is the welfare of the people.

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

You must write to the people's expertise.

Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.

Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.