Quotes on People

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

…We were born vampires." "I thought you became –" "— vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people into vampires, it’s an easy technique, but what would be the point? When you eat… now what is it you eat? Oh yes, chocolate… you don’t want to turn it into another Agnes Nitt, do you? Less chocolate to go around." He sighed. "Oh dear, superstition, superstition everywhere we turn.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.

I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.

Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sounds. By such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.

If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.