People Quotes - page 11

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. View quote
Montesquieu
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
I make it a point never to argue with people for whose opinion I have no respect. View quote
Edward Gibbon
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. View quote
Ezra Pound
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. View quote
Edmund Burke
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. View quote
Gore Vidal
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. View quote
Robert Frost
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. View quote
Henry James
Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. (W. H. Auden)
A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. View quote
Robert Benchley
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. View quote
Robert Benchley
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. View quote
Steven Weinberg
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. View quote
Margaret Mead
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. View quote
Norman Mailer
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. View quote
Norman Mailer
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. View quote
Norman Mailer
Most people still steal music. View quote
Steve Ballmer
Most people are real nice, when you finally see them. View quote
Harper Lee
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right. (Jane Goodall)
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the Romish clergy. View quote
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. View quote
Jim Henson