Quotes on People

I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.

I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.