With People Quotes

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.

... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.

English people ... are very kind, very friendly, interested in a general way, and consider us a great, wonderful, unknown sort of Australia, and that is all.

It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.

It must not simply be taken for granted that a given set of ill-assorted people, for no other reason than because it is Christmas, will be joyful to be reunited and to break bread together.

Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.

People who come to see my movies, you're coming to see a drama masquerading as a genre piece.

When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel.

Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

On Politics: When our people get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being our people.

One seldom loves people for their virtues.

The less explaining you do the less people speculate.

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light.

I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.

That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting.

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people.

I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.

Their [Phoenix] audience wasn't into us at all. The way most of the venues worked was there was no alcohol on the floor so usually during our set most people were in the lobby getting their drink on.

I mean it was weird. But Phoenix watched us every night. But it's like they're not even a band, they're like a corporation. They bring a staff of like 40 people.

At first you're doing it for yourself, it's about what sounds good to you. It's about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable as an artist and you find yourself and people get familiar.

Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.

I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone.

It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.

I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are not jerks and I would like to continue that streak.

I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.

My hope is that my personal testimony can help in some way to not only advance the dialogue and approve Referendum 74, but also to help shape a culture of belonging in which ALL people are equal.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to get you through

I just love being on stage and I love making music, and as far as - it's great for narcissism, because you have all those people screaming out your name.

I don't feel that people should glom onto other people. I feel that relationships should be nice and easy and convenient and happy and not strictured with legality or jealousy.

There are good, humanitarian people everywhere - occasionally even in the Church.

You get along with certain people, but sometimes it feels like a job and you don't feel that instant connection with people.

I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.

John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].

I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or...anything.

Bill Clinton valued my opinion and always made sure that my views were heard, and people knew that he wanted me to talk.

I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

Unfortunately for the Iraqi people, instead of meeting these requirements, for six years, Saddam Hussein has lied, delayed, obstructed and tried to deceive

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning.