For The People Quotes

I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

I have an amazing team, and we find people who resonate with us, but sometimes our scope is still small because we are a pretty small group and we have so much work to do. We get approached a lot.

When lending people money, be sure their character exceeds their collateral.

I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to put down free speech, whatever the excuse.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.

A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy.

I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say.

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

I know that people can live celibate lives, I did it myself for many years.

Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.

Always remember no matter how many people say no, all you need to find is one single person to say yes. Just one person.

Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one has ever betrayed so many people and abused so much good faith as he did.

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.

The greater the number of prescriptions, the more people's sense of personal responsibility dwindles.

I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing or about other people.

In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self.

There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.

I am not one of these people who instantly takes umbrage when he's corrected or - I love being corrected.

What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there.

Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.

I like working with family and friends and people I admire. All my movies are filled with family members of some capacity. I think it means more when you have a personal relationship with someone.

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors.

Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

All businesses, including gasoline stations and restaurants, should close ever Sunday... by force of legislative fiat through the duly elected officials of the people.

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.

Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films.

One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.

I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.

Hell is the place for people who did not live their lives according to the best of what was in them.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.

It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.

Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science.

I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.

People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.

Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble

To me party platforms are contracts with the people.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.