People Quotes

It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.

~ Bille August

In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.

~ Leland Stanford

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

~ Ian Mackaye

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

~ Ray Dalio

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

~ Pope Francis

White folks, no matter how well-meaning or open-minded, have no true idea what it's like to be black in America. That's not a slam against white people or an accusation of latent bigotry. But the fact is that we all live in an Anglo-dominated society.

~ John Ridley

It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

~ Noam Chomsky

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

~ Evelyn Glennie

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.

~ Pauline Hanson

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

~ Marilyn Monroe

I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.

~ Russell Simmons

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

~ Horace Walpole

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

~ John Lahr

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.

~ John Roberts

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

~ Susan Sontag

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

~ William S. Burroughs

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.

~ Mary Mcaleese

There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.

~ Major Owens

I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.

~ Jude Law

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

~ Mitt Romney

One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.

~ Francois Hollande

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

~ Corey Feldman

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

~ John Key

It's almost a blessing when we meet people who naturally want to do the sort of things that are in high demand in society. What a gift to do that, as opposed to other people who would say, 'I want to be a novelist but actually I have to be an accountant.'

~ Alain De Botton

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

~ Andrew Young

I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

~ Steve Buscemi

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

~ Chinua Achebe

You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing.

~ Michael Porter

I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry.

~ Helen Mirren

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

~ Colin Powell

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

~ Desmond Tutu

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

~ Iain Duncan Smith

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

~ Mary Ellen Mark

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

~ Clarence Thomas

You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.

~ Kathleen Turner

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

~ John W. Gardner

In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.

~ John Sculley

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

~ Max Cannon

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

~ Abbie Hoffman

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

~ Boyd Rice