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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
- Nov 07, 2020
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
- Collectively
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.
- Beautiful Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that made them beautiful are the same forces that will ultimately destroy them.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United States. So the Atlantic Ocean was absolutely critical to the story of America.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tune it all out because if I let other people's stress get to me, then I stress myself out more than I need to.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reaction of the public plays a very important role. It gives us an adrenaline boost, especially when people start to shout and clap their hands in time with the music. That really helps us to go on.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes in England, people look down at the Europa League, but being from the continent, I've always realised what an important competition it is.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In England, unless I am mistaken, I think some of the politicians who love classical music and opera are a bit loath to be seen there in case people think it is elitist. That is a real shame because it also means we are not allowing our politicians a hinterland that an earlier generation, a Denis Healey, would have taken for granted.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a nation, we English tend to be self-deprecating, looking down on ourselves. We're insular but also flexible, whereas in Germany, it's a case of besser wissen - we know better. That's very Deutsch. People are never frightened to tell you what you're doing wrong, in a way that would never happen in England.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse: Germans are among the most emotional people on the planet. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, as a nation, they are always drawn back to nature and the forest.
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- Nov 07, 2020