- Capitalism
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- 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
- Devoid
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.
- Desperate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I urge North Korea's leaders to reflect on Burma's experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.
- Flourishes
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to it after a prolonged absence, and then they stand out very sharply for a while.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, the 24-hour, high-maintenance celebrity lifestyle can disconnect people from reality.
- Nov 07, 2020
Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.
- Clergy
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- Nov 07, 2020