- 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
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
People want things that address their everyday reality, and that goes for stuff that isn't political - with singer-songwriter music, people want things that touch them.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal with a show is to push forward the passion in a visual and sonic way. It all comes out in a trance-like way, fast and pulsating. Then people can go home and think about the lyrics later.
- Nov 07, 2020
If people come to a record store, and they can't find your album, they buy something else.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my music to be not only representative of other people's lives but also contributing something to the struggle that people are going through.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ultimate credo of capitalism is to exploit people. It's not like this is just an incidental problem; it's inherent in the system.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's nice to be recognized for what you do, but that doesn't satisfy what I wanted out of this music, which is for people to hear it and get involved in movements and campaigns.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The folks that are suggesting Occupy move to electoral politics are ignoring history, ignoring what actually creates change. People get involved in electoral politics because they think there is no movement that can create change.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of leaders that talk about ending things like oppression - whether it's discrimination or getting a job - but the reason for all of this stuff is somebody's making a profit off our backs. That's the reason why black people were brought here in the first place. It was a profit motive.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought my parents were always having card parties - and they were - but they were actually also having meetings to organize people. My older sister would be part of youth organizing, and she'd have dance parties. People would be dancing and talking about how to improve their neighborhood.
- Nov 07, 2020
With a movie, you have the power of putting out an idea about the world and for people to take it seriously.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all - even at a base level, even a Republican - understand that the people with the money are the ones with the power. We all learn that.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020