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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm first-generation American - my people came over on boats - and I think it's a shame to close the door on people who really need freedom.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
- Stroke
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can stroke people with words.
- Aspiring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
- Meant To Be
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- Nov 07, 2020
A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.
- Formation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020