“Save the people you love, who cares about the rest of the world? - Uncle Jake”
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People Quotes — page 728 of 5018
“The Golden Rule works. It really does. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Kindness begets kindness.”
“The greatest people that ever lived were also the greatest failures. They just didn’t let those failures affect them like they do most.”
“People can fly. Some people fly higher than others, that's all.”
“There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. When someone lays a finger on one of those great themes--continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations--when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that History is being raped or murdered.”
“The political and social processes by which the Western European societies were put in order are not very apparent, have been forgotten, or have become habitual. They are part of our most familiar landscape, and we don't perceive them anymore. But most of them once scandalized people.”
“People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which everything-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light of day and broadcasting to noisy accompaniment.”
“There's much talk about the problems of youth, but young people are not a problem. It's a natural evolution of things. We, who have known only how to make war and slaughter people, have no right to judge them, nor can we teach them anything.”
“There's no expert on this planet who says that the government telling people what to do actually does any good with this issue, this is going to require an effort on everyone's part.”
“You do not keep American democracy in suspense. Because, look, too many people have marched and protested and fought and died for this democracy.”
“Great people create great acts of kindness.”
“I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music.”
“I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.”
“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.”
“All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.”
“What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?”
“The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.”
“People everywhere are the same; they are all people to be loved. They are all hungry for love.”
“To students: I pray that all those young people who have graduated, do not carry just a piece of paper with them but that they carry with them love, peace and joy. That they become the sunshine of God's love to our people, the hope of eternal happiness and the burning flame of love wherever they go. That they become carriers of God's love. That they be able to give what they have received. For they have received not to keep, but to share.”
“I'm definitely gonna be the People's champion ... but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to be the champ. I'm gonna be the champ the way I wanna be.”