Quotes on People

They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

As we look into the future, we are going to need to be stronger and more responsible for our choices in a world where people "call evil good, and good evil." We do not choose wisely if we use our agency in opposition to God's will or to priesthood counsel. Tomorrow's blessings and opportunities depend on the choices we make today.

This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise. Their aid they yield to all: they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone; Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd; Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects, what they show to kings.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.

Talk to people in their own language. _x000D_ _x000D_ If you do it well, they'll say,"God, he said exactly what I was thinking." _x000D_ _x000D_ And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

The one advantage of playing with fire...is_x000D_ _x000D_ that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that God has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English.

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.