People Quotes

We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.

~ Lal Bahadur Shastri

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

~ Tommy Douglas

I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as that in Berlin, built to prevent people from seeking freedom, is almost beyond comprehension.

~ Robert Kennedy

The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.

~ Bobby Sands

You don't get the fox to be in charge of the chicken coop. You don't give the outgoing regime - which has been practicing dictatorship, is an authoritarian system, it's a bunch of military people - the task of changing Egypt into a second republic, a new Egypt with democracy, freedom, rights, etc.

~ Mohamed Elbaradei

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

~ D. H. Lawrence

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening.

~ Jim Talent

People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that.

~ Robert Fogel

The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.

~ Rush Limbaugh

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

~ Hillary Clinton

In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

~ Malcolm X

If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.

~ Margaret Atwood

You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.

~ Martha Beck

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

~ Demetri Martin

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

~ Dan Savage

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.

~ Niall Ferguson

From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.

~ Gary Ackerman

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

~ Geoffrey Fisher

Nowadays, if you have a mustache, people look at you like you're crazy. But when I was growing up, I never saw my dad without a mustache.

~ Kevin Connolly

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

~ Phil Mcgraw

I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.

~ Jennifer Garner

My dad's cooking was magic in the kitchen. But eventually over the years, his personality changed and his ability to remember recipes failed. He became paranoid and thought people were stealing from him, when often he was just misplacing things.

~ Tess Gerritsen

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied: to want more and know that what is done is done. That was his way of seeing the game. You've done it, now move on. People might say, 'Well, when can you enjoy it?' But it worked for me because, in the game, you need to be on your toes.

~ Thierry Henry

My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.

~ Jon Lovitz

You can't be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad - there's something in the middle of them, and that's really what you are and that's going to make you the best dad - not when you try to be one or the other.

~ Gerard Way

'The Simpsons' was about children and married parents; 'Futurama' is about people in between; they're growing up and haven't settled down. Every other cartoon show seemed to be, you know, dumb dad, bratty kids.

~ Matt Groening

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.

~ Bill Gates

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

~ Joel Osteen

People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.

~ James Wan

People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.

~ James Wan

I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.

~ Andy Serkis

A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.

~ Jason Statham

It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

~ Jeb Bush

My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards.

~ Bryce Dallas Howard

People say, 'You will be 30 years old; you're too old. You'll get your nose broke,' say dad's a pushy dad. You hear stupid things and put them out of your mind.

~ Katie Taylor

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

~ Chief Joseph

Honestly, I was such a tomboy as a kid. People were taking from their mothers' closets - I was taking from my dad's closet. It was the '80s, so it wasn't terrible, but I was wearing my dad's dress shirts over jeans from the Gap.

~ Lauren Graham

I loved going to the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial in Taipei to watch all the old Chinese people doing tai chi and practicing kung fu. The monument was made of white marble, and it was beautiful. Sometimes my dad and I would practice with them.

~ Jimmy Chin