People Quotes - Page 172

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs

People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

Most of the problems with the bodies and minds of the folks occupying the current culture involve an unwillingness to do anything hard, or anything that they'd rather not do. I applaud your resolve, and I welcome you to the community of people who have decided that EASY will no longer suffice.

Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Music is a tool. Lighting is a tool. Power point is a tool. Getting those things right is not the goal. God is the goal. Those are just tools. And we can real easily turn into worshippers of all the tools, rather than remembering that this is simply a tool to get the job done which is to help connect people with God and to help inspire people.

Somtimes I regret [that debut album was titled "Bad Azz" ], because people take it the wrong way. Everybody got a bad ways, and I'm a 'Bad Ass'... whenever I'm not good, so that's what I'm talkin' about.

Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines.

I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.

Would I employ you if you were obese? No I would not. You would give the wrong impression to the clients of my business. I need people to look energetic, professional and efficient. If you are obese you look lazy.

The prettiest people do the ugliest things.

I believe people can move things with their minds.

You can feel the vibes, feel the people pulling for you.

Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even church workers - yes, and, alas, even prophets, priests and preachers - will find themselves lost when they expected to be saved, condemned when they expected approval, cast out of Heaven when they expected to be received into eternal bliss. That is the explicit meaning of the words of our Lord... (see: Matt 7:21-23.]

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.