People Quotes

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

War is horrible, but slavery is worse, and you may be sure that the British people would rather go down fighting than live in servitude.

The choice was clearly open: crush them with vain and unstinted force, or try to give them what they want. These were the only alternatives, and though each had ardent advocates, most people were unprepared for either. Here indeed was the Irish spectre - horrid and inexorcisable.

The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.

Democracy is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting the rights of other people. Democracy is no harlot to be picked up in the street by a man with a tommy gun. I trust the people, the mass of the people, in almost any country, but I like to make sure that it is the people and not a gang of bandits who think that by violence they can overturn constituted authority.

How can I accept the Order of the Garter, when the people of England have just given me the Order of the Boot?

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

People overestimate the Rolling Stones. I don't think the Stones areas good as people think. Obviously I think the Stones are a very good band.

Americans are funny people. First, you shock them, and then they put you in a museum.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.

If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

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

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.