Quotes on People

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.

To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

Governments don't control people like they used to.

Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to.

I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.

There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.

With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world

It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: I can be there.