Quotes on People

But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises.

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take their eyes.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

The important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they've beginning to have with autism.

There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.

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

It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular

Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.

The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be slothfulness in prayer.

I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer meetings that moved our very souls, each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.