People Quotes
To awaken the people, it is the women who must first be awakened. Once she is on the move, the family moves, the village moves, the nation moves.
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.
Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.
Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.
Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.
He who wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue; then others can imitate and, at the same time, rise above the one being imitated - something which people love.
The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.
Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.
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