People quotes
100.4K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Browse quotes that often appear alongside people — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought. ...If therefore a people will not be free; if they have not virtue enough to maintain their liberty against a presumptuous invader, they deserve no pity, and are to be treated with contempt and ignominy."
"My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine."
"My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation."
"The people are to be taken in very small doses."
"Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest."
"Where there is no vision a people perish."
"The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person."
"Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so."
"People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little."
"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."
"I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. I have to identify with my own soul. And then I can have such compassion for that soul who has an incarnation like George Bush. I feel compassion. That's karma of the here. Compassion and love, that's all."
"I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that's what the emerging game is all about."
"I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, My god, hes going to know all the things I dont want people to know. I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love."
"Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and neglects the meaning of his own personal life. Hence he sees his own life as meaningless and falls into the “existential vacuum” feeling inner void. Progressive automation causes increasing alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and suicide."
"People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another."
"Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need."
"If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward."
"I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow."
"You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."
"Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag."
