For The People Quotes

I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world.

Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.

People can be anonymous when they go on blogs and say crazy things that they would never have the courage to say to your face.

It's no good having, being with people you can dominate all the time. Or being with someone who can dominate you all the time. Because either one is boring.

I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.

I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.

I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people.

It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

It’s disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self- denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.

The greatest horrors of our world are committed by people who are totally sincere.

Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor.

Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.

True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.

Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.

I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?

Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people into watching the money shot.

If you repeat something long enough people believe it's what happened.

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

I'm not a people person. I'm not sociable. I have been and I can be, but not as a general rule.

You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.

I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other people off if I need to. I don't think I'm angry, though... Maybe my wife would disagree.

The settled will of the Scottish people.

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.

Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.

When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.

Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.

And I think the American people look to the leaders to lead. They look to the leaders to take on the big problems. And the president deserves a lot of credit for doing that.

I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.

People always ask me what I'm doing on the subway, but I love it! Sometimes I like to ride in the front car and look out the window at the rats.

Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.

The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, Lies through their mouths or I mistake mankind.

People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you.

Music is about people for me. It's not about sounds. It's about people; it's about putting people into challenging situations. And for me, challenges are opportunities.

I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.