“To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.”
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“People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.”
“But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.”
“From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.”
“People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.”
“People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.”
“We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.”
“A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.”
“What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.”
“Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.”
“Certitude drives people mad.”
“Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.”
“The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is.”
“I have a positive core, and what I'm doing for music and Earth and the people is more living and less critical thinking.”
“I have a huge support base of people that love me around the world: millions of fans and supporters and growing.”
“It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.”
“My message of common-sense solutions is resonating with people. People around the country are starting to know who I am and starting to identify me with solutions, not rhetoric.”
“If you touch the hearts of people you can get people's minds to change, but you have to show them the beauty of not aborting a life.”
“There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.”
“Leaders make things happen. Leaders will take a situation and try and figure out what is it that we're trying to do, what is the problem, what kind of priorities and resources do we need, what kind of people do I need to bring to bear on this problem, what kind of plans do we need to succeed.”