People Quotes - Page 65

White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.

Avoid head trash. Don't be a garbage can for anything that does not feed your intellect, stimulate your imagination, or make you a more compassionate peaceful person. Refuse to open your mind to other people's trash. Tune out anything that promotes conflict or controversy. This can infect you with a mind virus of cynicism or defeat, and you won't even know it!

I went to a psychologist friend and said if 500 people claimed to see Jesus after he died, it was just a hallucination. He said hallucinations are an individual event. If 500 people have the same hallucination, that's a bigger miracle than the resurrection.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

Some people are hurting so bad you have to do more than preach a message to them. You have to BE a message to them.

I'm a person who likes to develop. I like for people to see me grow.

People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security... How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?

Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.

When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best...they’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they’re telling us what we’re getting.

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place.

What is beauty? Is it the way her body's shaped, or the way she's dressed? But if the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.