Quotes on People

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn't turn over, because harming people isn't my goal. Transparency is.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.

Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.