- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good-Paying
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- Nov 07, 2020
More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally, I have a strong interest in trying to help people who are maybe not as lucky as I am. I've been well rewarded in this world. I'm more worried about the next one.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.
- Entrust
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
- Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020