For The People Quotes

Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new ones; the old religions are pretty good.

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty.

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

None of us has a girlfriend. But being in a band, you meet people everywhere you go. I know mine will turn up one day.

People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.

The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them.

You dont do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.

No people ever rise higher, as a people, than the point to which they elevate their women.

Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.

I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.

The big problem in the world is when people are forced to be in a totally foreign context.

But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people

I do not whisper obscurities in some dark corner. I would not have told the people of Israel to seek me if I could not be found. I, the Lord, speak only what is true and declare only what is right.

Most people ultimately realize that they can acquire things, change their partner or other things, consume more and still it doesn't work. I'm not criticizing any of this.

Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world.

The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.

To destroy is easier than to create, and that is why so many people are ready to demonstrate against what they reject. But what would they say if one asked them what they wanted instead?

I always thought that Bill Murray was one of the great actors that I've worked with. And I've worked with all kinds of people who are known primarily for their dramatic work.

We're in a very unique time where noise equals, in a lot of people's perception, advocacy. And I fundamentally disagree with that.

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!

Abundance is a direct reflection of your preparation to live abundantly. People who are ready for abundance keep their heads up, their eyes open and give thanks for everything they get.

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed.

People have to do what they want to do.

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.

Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.

I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.

The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.

People never notice anything.

I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.

If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.

Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?

I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed.

Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's.

Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again. "So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking.

Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?

The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of integrity

Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.

In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.

I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. In sales there are usually four or five "no's" before you get a "yes."

One of the things I tell people in my seminars is to hang out with positive, nurturing people. You become like who you hang out with.

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.