Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with People.
There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.
Jane Austen
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde
People do not make wars; governments do.
Ronald Reagan
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
Rebecca West
They want me to immolate myself, and I sincerely believe that for some of them, when they see bad news from Iraq, the reaction is simply 'This will make Hitchens look bad!' I've been trying to avoid solipsism, but I've come to believe there are such people.
Christopher Hitchens
Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.
Jodi Picoult
The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.
If you want to correct your own failings, you do not have the time to waste in blaming other people.
Leo Tolstoy
The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor, the wise and the foolish, the good and the bad
Samuel Johnson
People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
Kurt Vonnegut
There are many people who claim to be teachers of others who should themselves be taught first of all.
When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.
Steve Jobs
If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
Thomas Kempis, The Imitation of
The real saint, Baudelaire pretends to think, is he who flogs and kills people for their own good. His argument will be heard. A race of real saints is beginning to spread over the earth for the purposes of confirming these curious conclusions about rebellion.
Albert Camus
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
George Orwell
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Bertrand Russell
Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Our people... will give you all the necessaries of war they produce, if, instead of the bankrupt trash they now are obliged to receive for want of any other, you will give them a paper promise funded on a specific pledge, and of a size for common circulation.
Thomas Jefferson
