The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George OrwellIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George OrwellPeople are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.
Dr. SeussI like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest HemingwayThere is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Jane AustenEverybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.
Neil GaimanI live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.
Herman HesseThe world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert EinsteinA lot of the people who keep a gun at home for safety are the same ones who refuse to wear a seat belt.
George CarlinHappiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest HemingwayCommon looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham LincolnThat's the true spirit of Christmas, people being helped by people other than me.
Jerry SeinfeldIn the dime stores and bus stations people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob DylanSome people see things that are and ask "Why?" Some people dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?" Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...
George CarlinEveryone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.
Bob MarleyPeople are people and sometimes we change our minds.
Taylor SwiftPeople are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
Paulo CoelhoA great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTreat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time somewhere someone said to themselves "You know I want to set those people over there on fire but I'm just not close enough to get the job done".
George CarlinShow me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Napoleon BonaparteIt had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da VinciMost folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham LincolnThings may happen, and often do, to people as brainy and footsy as you.
Dr. SeussMotivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. EisenhowerMy main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Samuel ButlerGive the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.
BuddhaSome people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
Benjamin FranklinSome rise by sin and some by virtue fall.
William ShakespeareEveryone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Paulo CoelhoMost people would rather give than get affection.
AristotleOther people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
Mason CooleyIf you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert EinsteinPeople with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Herman HesseYou can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.
Bob MarleyMany people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Benjamin FranklinIt is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin FranklinOnly dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Oscar WildeThere are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.
Paulo CoelhoYour time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve JobsI love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me and I spent a year or a year and a half of my life working on it.
Stephen KingTo be idle is a short road to death, and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
BuddhaCity people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
Mason CooleyPeople with virtue must speak out, People who speak are not all virtuous.
ConfuciusOne's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar WildeOnly a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
Theodor W. AdornoThe unfortunate need people who will be kind to them, the prosperous need people to be kind to.
AristotleThe idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya AngelouToo many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm ForbesAll people are the same only their habits change.
ConfuciusDemocracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar WildeDon't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care, and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
Lou HoltzThe people in my songs are all me.
Bob DylanKissing - and I mean like yummy smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do bar none. Better than sex hands down.
Drew BarrymoreA people without the knowledge of their past, history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus GarveyAfter all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
Calvin CoolidgeDo not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
George SantayanaColleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Bob DylanPeople buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
John C. MaxwellConventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand RussellMorality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar WildeIn most people's vocabularies design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me nothing could be further from the meaning of design.
Steve JobsIt is only out of ignorance that people are cruel because they really don't think it will come back.
Maya AngelouFew people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEvery human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Helen HayesIt wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are the more human you are.
Drew BarrymoreHistory is a pack of lies about events that never happened, told by people who weren't there.
George SantayanaA nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mahatma GandhiIt's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
E. O. WilsonTechnology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools they'll do wonderful things with them.
Steve JobsBoth oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people and therefore deprive them of their arms.
AristotleMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar WildeA drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Samuel ButlerI owe my solitude to other people.
Alan WattsSometimes 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.
Woodrow WilsonYou don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. EisenhowerEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas JeffersonI cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
Thomas MertonI don't vote. Two reasons. First of all it's meaningless, this country was bought and sold a long time ago. The shit they shovel around every 4 years *pfff* doesn't mean a fucking thing. Secondly I believe if you vote you have no right to complain. People like to twist that around
George CarlinFew people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good to the praise that deceives them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAny people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
Abraham LincolnPeople always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham LincolnThere is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin FranklinAll creative people want to do the unexpected.
Hedy LamarrAlthough it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
John Stuart MillThe most dangerous people are the ignorant.
Henry Ward BeecherI can calculate the motion of heavenly, bodies but not the madness of people.
Isaac NewtonThe human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Theodore RooseveltMost Americans are very cool people.
Henry RollinsDon't knock the weather, nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Kin HubbardAmerica is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.
George W. BushThere are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
Francois de La RochefoucauldOne of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be and how dangerous it is to trust them.
Thomas SowellAmericans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common, except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
Doug CouplandI suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma GandhiWhen red-haired people are above a certain social grade, their hair is auburn.
Mark TwainIt creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.
EminemI have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
George W. BushPeople can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Bill CosbyMost people would rather get than give affection
AristotleGo before the people with your example and be laborious in their affairs.
ConfuciusIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar WildeWealth and rank are what people desire but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.
ConfuciusWithout deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert EinsteinA toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
George EliotDo not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Pope John Paul III have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
Winston ChurchillTo lead an uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.
ConfuciusI do not want people to be agreeable as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
Jane AustenWho are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl SaganOnly kings, presidents, editors and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."
Mark TwainHe's been doing the defensive part all year long. Sometimes the people want more. Tonight he gave them more.
Kobe BryantDignity, and even holiness too, sometimes are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Charles DickensTechnology favors horrible people.
Doug CouplandIf I'm a star then the people made me a star.
Marilyn MonroeI think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.
George CarlinAncient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
AristotleIn known history nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
Alan WattsPeople will always choose more money over more sex.
Doug CouplandThe march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Thomas SowellUnity is vital for all wherever they are and whatever their country, religion or sex. Love should be the unifying force.
Sai BabaIf you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
ConfuciusConfront them with annihilation and they will then survive, plunge them into a deadly situation and they will then live. When people fall into danger they are then able to strive for victory.
Sun TzuProperty, as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
Woodrow WilsonI sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Calvin CoolidgeI wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.
Tiger WoodsNever pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
Mark TwainThere are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Josh BillingsThe people who are absent are the ideal, those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePeople who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
Mason CooleyUntil the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen KellerExperience praises the most happy, the one who made the most people happy.
Karl MarxIf you lead the people with correctness who will dare not be correct?
ConfuciusIt is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy, it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other and seven days are more than enough for others.
Jane AustenA little learning indeed may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick DouglassIf you shoot for the stars and hit the moon it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.
ConfuciusYou can design and create and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Walt DisneyMy being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry, I must find other people charming - one other person at least.
Jane AustenSome people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.
George CarlinYou have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
Taylor SwiftIt is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark TwainIf one plays good music people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar WildeMankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
ConfuciusListen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.
Maya AngelouMany people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Helen KellerAll tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Edmund BurkeEarth was not built for six billion people, all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
Doug CouplandI've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Maya AngelouIt is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas SowellMagic trick: to make people disappear ask them to fulfill their promises.
Mason CooleyThere are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar WildeTo write well express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
AristotleMost people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
Erich FrommAlways do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark TwainAmericans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
Andrew JacksonIf you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlinMost people with low self-esteem have earned it.
George Carlin