People Quotes - Page 653

In your country club, your church, and business, about fifteen percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights, and boobs, and you would not want those people unrepresented in Congress.

But there's people I care about! And this time around, I’m not gonna just stand by and let them all get hurt!

The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.

Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.

I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it.

I’ve seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and how it wears them down. And I just don’t want that in my life.

People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying.

Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.

My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls.

All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

I'll never try to put on a fake image. I'm just Zac.

When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist.

I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.

Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative. And it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we are to continue to grow.

At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.

I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.