people Quotes

“An habitation giddy and unsure hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

topic:power people

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition; and where all the superior ranks of people were secured from it, the inferior ranks could not be much exposed to it.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:science people

“The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:government people

“Machiavelli . . . He professed to teach kings; but it was the people he really taught.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:teaching people

“Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“She belonged to that one of the two divisions of the human race in which the untiring curiosity which the other half feels about the people whom it does not know is replaced by an unfailing interest in the people whom it does.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:society people

“There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

topic:imagination people

“What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

topic:need people leadership

“People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want to vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:government money people

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