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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
Martin Luther King Jr.
In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.
Stephen King
You can say a lot of things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are unduly afraid of deep fryers.
John Green
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has
Alan AshleyPitt
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it.
George Eliot
The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain ; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next...
What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.
Ronald Reagan
Pay bad people with you goodness; fight their hatred with you kindness. Even if you do not achieve victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
Leo Tolstoy
We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.
Paulo Coelho
It is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than Nazis or Stalinists.
Christopher Hitchens
As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
Steve Jobs
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.
Aleister Crowley
My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.
George Bernard Shaw
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
Victor Hugo
Never again will I underestimate the greatness inside of me just because of the hate and limited thinking inside of others.
Steve Maraboli
People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed. George Bush and an Australian Aborigine have fewer differences than a Lhasa apso and a toy fox terrier. A Japanese raised in Riyadh would be an Arab. A Zulu raised in New Rochelle would be an orthodontist. People are all the same, though their circumstances differ terribly.
P. J. O'Rourke, Holidays in Hell
There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld