With People Quotes

Democracy, as I understand it, requires me to sacrifice myself for the masses, not to them. Who knows not that if you would save the people, you must often oppose them?

I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.

What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood.

If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations.

The leader is there for the people, not the people for the leader

The best leaders are humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their people.

Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

People who love life have charisma because they fill the room with positive energy.

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish much. Success is the result of people pulling together to meet common goals.

I did not call for the extermination of people, but of ideas.

Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?

I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.

Most people in America don't believe that "God" is a dirty word, but the sad fact is that some Americans are left to wonder whether the Supreme Court might have greater regard for it if it was.

A lot of people know that something very drastic has happened to the very idea of America.

...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.

I'm glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I'm glad many people read my book and found out the truth.

The studio's a collaborative environment. I just try to let people bring their own ideas to the songs and see what happens.

I knew that I wanted to create rich themes, and something that people might really relate to emotionally. That was the quest, authenticity, and then just to make the audience feel something.

I try to move people emotionally.

I just don't like it when people get credited for their voice work and it's really shitty. It's really thin, there's nothing to it, there's no meat behind it. It's, like, "Oh, it's a celebrity."

The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are.

But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.

There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform.

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.

Only With words and people and love you move at ease.

I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized

The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

Since all people are in the image of God, all deserve to be treated with the dignity the image affords.

Your behaviour influences others through a ripple effect. A ripple effect works because everyone influences everyone else. Powerful people are powerful influences.

The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.

Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many people - for them, life starts with a good job.

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?

The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is literate, therefore not knowing quite how to put that on screen.

He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.

People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.

There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.

You hear players, media people, say that it's tough to play in Philly in front of these fans, to those people I say: you didn't have the guts to succeed here!

Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.

I never build myself us. I let the people do that. I'm the most laid-back person, and I let them build me up. If you ask me, I say, 'I''m just a guy playin' some blues.

I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them.