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"When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness."
"Rich people are poor people with money."
"It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children"
"Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job."
"I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story."
"Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent."
"People don't talk to each other. You're alone with your television set or internet. But you can't have a functioning democracy without what sociologists call "secondary organizations," places where people can get together, plan, talk and develop ideas. You don't do it alone."
"The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history."
"Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me."
"People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized."
"I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me"
"A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself."
"[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places."
"People don't come to therapy for exclamation; they come for experience."
"I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time."
"It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do."
"The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle."
"Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest"
"All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy)."
"Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film."
