People Quotes - Page 160

I don't believe people should to be able to own guns.

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

I don't think there will ever be a time when people will stop wanting to bring about change.

No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.

And that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate—and enjoy. End of sermon. As Buddha says: live like a mighty river. And as the old Greeks said: live as though all your ancestors were living again through you.

People lie. They use you and they lie, all the while feeding you bullshit about being loyal and never leaving you. No one can make that promise, because life is all about seasons, and seasons change.

Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.

I know we will create a society where there are no rich or poor, no people without work or beauty in their lives, where money itself will disappear, where we shall all be brothers and sisters, where every one will have enough.

I think you pay people based on their work and not based on gender. It's that simple.

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?

You have to treat people the way you want to be treated, because ultimately, you're not gonna get anywhere if you're just mean to people.

I wish to call on you to join hands in the building of a world in which less people will be forced to flee, and in which refugees are protected until they can safely return home one day.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

People say to the mentally ill, ‘You know so many people think the world of you.’ But when they don’t like themselves they don’t notice anything. They don’t care about what people think of them. When you hate yourself, whatever people say it doesn’t make sense. ‘Why do they like me? Why do they care about me?’ Because you don’t care about yourself at all.