With People Quotes

When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.

Most people suffer in love because of attachment. Attachment means we're interested in a net return on our investment.

Whether people watch Doctor Who or not over here, everybody knows about it. It's a British icon, it's so part of the nation.

I'm one of these people that if I have a nice holiday - like I have had in Turkey repeatedly - I go back a lot.

Mann There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who DRAIN energy.

Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.

That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.

I find it very hard to say yes or no quite openly, because people are never satisfied. One day they write us off as saying we're not together and the next day we're together and getting married.

I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.

I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.

I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.

... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.

I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.

I considered writing a book too, but I think people don't like to read, to be honest - they want to watch. People want to see crazy things, so we decided to make a film ["Selling Isobel"] instead.

The Germans would appear as the disturbers of peace, as they already do to some people, merely because they were the first to take the path along which all the others were ultimately to follow.

Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people?

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

The English are the people of consummate cant.

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

Christianity is Platonism for the people.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!

Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.