For The People Quotes

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

Love people and serve them.

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead

If the people are to be the final tribunal then they must vote for what is right rather than according to their own selfish interests, else we are treading the path of danger.

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

I'd defend myself. But I don't go around shoving people around; that's not me at all - that's for a cop. I'm not into that type of behavior at all.

I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

People spend the money where the money is. Nightmare never goes away.

Hymns of today that may be sung by people who know the thought of the age...are not afraid that any truth of science will destroy Christianity, or any revolution will overthrow the Kingdom of Heaven.

I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children, and I like to have them liked.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

The business of business is people.

The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.

Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.

If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial.

Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.

Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.

It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.

People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

We had only snacks last time, I think it was OK for a day time menu. But this time it will be late night when people gather so we should add some proper meals.

I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.

There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

One of the ways you go after the debt, one of the ways you create jobs is by investing in people.

I think I've set some big goals. The American people haven't had a raise in 15 years. Getting incomes up is a huge goal. Now maybe it's not as exciting to some people, but it's a huge goal.

The Supreme Court raises the question, what kind of country will we be? The Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of the powerful, wealthy.

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

I'm going to have a special prosecutor. We're going to enforce the trade deals we have, and we're going to hold people accountable.

[Donald] Trump has a great capacity to use bluster and bigotry to inflame people.He is becoming ISIS's best recruiter.

Images are really powerful. People fall in love with images, and as a way of falling in love with someone because they're like an image.

People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.

About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.