With People Quotes

A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.

The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.

[...] to judge from the Internet postings that people have sent me, probably most of what you learned [about me] was nonsense.

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.

All power is inherent in the people.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.

How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?

We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

Im a realist, not a sugar coater. I believe in always letting people know what their obstacles are. And at the end of the day, I just want to be respected for my hard work.

In order to help people, you have to first learn how to help yourself.

Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

The more divided people of color are in a system of white supremacy/privilege, the weaker they will be, both individually and collectively.

Drugs Are the Religion of the People ? The Only Hope is Dope.

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.

Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.

One of the reasons that the Ramones were so unique and original was that they were four original, unique people.

Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.

Success comes when people turn what they've learned into the daily habits that breed success.

Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.

I think people just like rooting. If they like you, they're going to want to root for you and you're one of theirs. And if they don't like you? It doesn't matter.

People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.

I believe in God. Whatever supposed to happen supposed to happen. But I can not live in a jail cell. That's why I don't rob people and stick up people.

Be careful who you share your weakness with. Some people can't wait for the opportunity to use them against you.

Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.

There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.

Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.

At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.

Studios might support people trying to do something a little bit different and they'd be more open to the fact that there's more than one path to the waterfall.

I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually.

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?'

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the center of the church. When I finished, everyone clapped and started crying.