People Quotes - Page 293

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

People are what are scary...people.

My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

There aren’t enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now

The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.

I think the immediate thing is we stand up to protect those people who are in trouble.

I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.

Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large. Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

Making prostitution legalized gives our society a message that sex is not sacred/private between two adults - that sex can be bought and sold just like any object. But prostitutes are people, not objects to be consumed, used and discarded like trash when they are no longer doing what each client/trafficker wants.

You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only.

I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.

If we want to reach the people that no one else is reaching, we've got to do things that no one else is doing.

If you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.

When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.

I feel very, very proud that so many people have copied me

Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically