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Until such time as people reject the power of government to govern, to legislate, and to punish, war will never stop.
Leo Tolstoy
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato
A person has done evil, so another person, or a group of people, in order to fight this evil, cannot think of anything better than to create another evil, which they call punishment.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Oscar Wilde
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
George Bernard Shaw
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
Mark Twain
Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David Thoreau
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Blaise Pascal
One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.
John Green
We're not a family. We're the opposite of a family. We're people so lonely that when we're together we make a black hole of loneliness and everything else gets sucked down into it and is never seen again.
Orson Scott Card
Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better.
Steve Jobs
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, The same as everywhere!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise.
Charles Dickens
Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.
Terry Pratchett
A liar sees lies, said Taleswapper. Even when they aren't there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can't stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.