Peoples Quotes

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa. (Paul Robeson)
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth. View quote
Giambattista Vico
A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. View quote
Maya Angelou
The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence. View quote
Walter Lippmann
The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples. View quote
Henry Kissinger
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart. View quote
Romeo LeBlanc
Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds. View quote
Henri La Fontaine
International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples. (Henri La Fontaine)
I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. View quote
Giambattista Vico
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul. View quote
Langston Hughes
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole. View quote
Fritz Zwicky
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. View quote
Robert Graves
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. View quote
François Mitterrand
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies. View quote
George W. Bush
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. View quote
Djuna Barnes
All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other peoples backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability. View quote
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of earth. (William McKinley)
Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war. View quote
Pierre Curie
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security. View quote
William F. Buckley
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable. View quote
Anatole France
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect. View quote
Mark Twain