The people are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times. (Marquis of Halifax)
People Quotes
But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same […]
The consent of the people is as mutable as the sands of the seashore. The consent of the people is never complete, never permanent.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
The so-called peace movement had evolved from seeking an end of the war to treating America’s frustrations in Indochina as symptoms of a moral degeneration that needed to be eradicated, root and branch… The total collapse of non-communist Indochina, which three American administrations had striven to prevent in the name of national security and honor, […]
In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
I’ve been mixing with humanity today and feel the less humane in consequence.
Therefore a sage has said, ‘I will do nothing (of purpose), and the people will be transformed of themselves; I will be fond of keeping still, and the people will of themselves become correct. I will take no trouble about it, and the people will of themselves become rich; I will manifest no ambition, and […]
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don’t mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that’s the commodity […]
