“The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.”
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People Quotes — page 646 of 5018
“If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.”
“It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the white man.”
“Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations. From this vantage point, religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.”
“What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest.”
“The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.”
“Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.”
“Most people only do what they are asked to do; success comes to those who do a little more.”
“I think people who basically do one thing like Eric Clapton is great. But I've always enjoyed playing different kinds of music and playing with different kinds of musicians because I find that really interesting, like learning and working with Kip Hanrahan. There's a great conga player called Milton Cardona and he taught me a lot of the nuances, he's a Santeria Priest and so he knows his onions as it were.”
“Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.”
“On the contrary Deepika feels inferior to other people I was surprised when I realised it. She is straightforward & very giving”
“Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.”
“When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.”
“People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong.”
“In fact the communists gained strength in India when the people thought my party was moving to the right. And they were correct.”
“... where does strength come from? It is not muscle strength any more. It is not also mere intellectual strength. What is strength? Strength is the support of the people.”
“Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.”
“The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.”
“There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.”
“A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.”