“We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.”
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People Quotes — page 693 of 5018
“The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.”
“I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'”
“I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else. If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.”
“Some of the most beautiful people in the whole world wake up some days and they don't think that they're pretty.”
“Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go... soon your gonna find stealing other people toys on the playground won't make you many friends.”
“Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.”
“The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.”
“As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.”
“It is true that zeal is the soul of the virtues, but most certainly, Monsieur, it must be according to knowledge, as Saint Paul says; that means: according to knowledge of experience. And because young people ordinarily do not possess this experiential knowledge, their zeal goes to excess, especially in those who have a natural asperity.”
“What you are saying is true of those who want everything to give way to them, nothing to oppose them, everything to go their way, people to obey them without comment or delay and, in a manner of speaking, to be adored.”
“People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.”
“Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.”
“So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.”
“In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains.”
“The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.”
“One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.”
“People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.”
“Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?”
“People are just not impressed by me at home.”