Quotes of: For-the-people Keyword

When people only talk about things they understand then a great silence will descend upon the world.

Chinese

People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the

Spanish

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Yiddish

If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding.

Yiddish

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverb

And what percentage of people take up the option to die off?’ She looked at me, her glance telling me to be calm. ‘Oh, a hundred per cent, of course. Over many thousands of years, calculated by old time, of course. But yes, everyone takes the opt...

A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the...

Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that 22 million black people have not risen up against their oppressors – in which they would have been ...

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. If the two people were as solidl...

A Moveable Feast

The myth that if you don't start early, you might as well not start, tends to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. The music-making world that young people confront reminds me a lot of the world of school sports. After a lot of weeding out, in the end you'...

Learning All The Time

The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and labor power the system can afford to distribute just enough wealth to just enough people to limit discontent to a t...

A People's History of the United States

Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed," he said. "And I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot ou...

Use of Weapons

Nothing is impossible . Its just that it has not been done yet. maybe its waiting for you to do it. Thats why its not done yet. So stop sitting and not doing anything. On that idea in your head, on that plan in your mind. On that skill/talent in you....

De philosopher Dj kyos

[first lines] Patrick Kenzie: I always believed it was the things you don't choose that makes you who you are. Your city, your neighborhood, your family. People here take pride in these things, like it was something they'd accomplished. The bodies ar...

Gone Baby Gone

Slevin: [from an alternate scene on the DVD] God! This - this smarts. Remember when people used to say that - smarts? Why don't people use that word anymore? I mean, people use the word "pain" way too loosely. There are so many types of pain. I mean,...

Lucky Number Slevin

Whenever I work hard for other people, I always sleep on an empty stomach.

Bantu

The land where the stones know you is worth more than the land where the people know you.

Berber

People fool themselves. They pray for a long life but fear old age.

Chinese

If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.

Traditional

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Zen

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a t...

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