The People Quotes
The Happiest people DO NOT necessarily have the BEST THINGS. They simply APPRECIATE the things they have.
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.
What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be.
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.
The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.
I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
I think it's way harder when you have success, 'cause people tend to not treat you the same or look at you the same because they see the success or the money you make.
You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.
Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
I'm an observer of life. I like to watch people, and I like to watch cactus. I like to talk to mountains and communicate with my friends in the other spheres and dimensions.
Each game is an opportunity to be on a great stage and be a witness for Christ. When I step on the floor, people should know who I represent, who I believe in.
We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!
People say it's easy to make fun of retarded people, but it's not. You really have to explain it to them.
You do know it cost money to put a t-shirt on your back? You do know it cost money have a house? You do know it cost money to eat? Get money, don't let these people fool you.
If you can disappoint yourself as much as you love yourself and you still manage to disappoint yourself then why are you shocked when other people that you love disappoint you.
There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Walk away from 'friendships' that make you feel small and insecure, and seek out people who inspire you and support you
My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.
The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.
Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.
Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.
All people go to Allah after their death, but the happy person is the one who goes to Allah while still alive.
How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it
I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention.
I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.
The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.
We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.