People Quotes

Imagine a hundred million people clicking polls and typing in their favorite TV shows and products and political leanings, day after day. It’s the biggest data profile ever. And it’s voluntary. That’s the funny part. People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they’ll spend all day telling you who they are.

~ Max Barry

It's hard to know what to say sometimes, when someone does something so nice. It's hard to know where to look.

~ Nathan Filer

Being with other people is hard for me, even when I love them. People have different ways of seeing and feeling, and things they like and things they don't, and trying to keep up with all of that- trying to keep another person happy all the time--can be exhausting.

~ Jane Devin

Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that because of it he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

~ Saint Bridget Of Sweden

Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.

~ Marian Wright Edelman

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

~ Jane Fonda

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

~ Elizabeth Fuller

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

~ Nikki Giovanni

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

~ Susan Griffin

Everyone needs help from everyone.

~ Bertolt Brecht

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not no one else is going to do it.

~ Dorothy Height

The entire population of the universe with one trifling exception is composed of others.

~ John Andrew Holmes

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

~ Marguerite De Valois

No matter what accomplishments you make somebody helped you.

~ Althea Gibson

Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than on what he ought to expect from them.

~ Elizabeth De Meulan Guizot

No matter how lofty you are in your department the responsibility for what your lowliest assistant is doing is yours.

~ Bessie Rowland James

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare social justice can never be attained.

~ Helen Keller

The oppressed never free themselves-they do not have the necessary strengths.

~ Clare Boothe Luce

I shall not pass this way again: Then let me now relieve some pain Remove some barrier from the road Or brighten some one's heavy load.

~ Eva Rose Park

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice it would start me up to a moment's life again.

~ Olive Schreiner

If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

~ Faye Wattleton

You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

~ Albert Schweitzer

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?

~ George Eliot

It is human nature that rules the world not governments and regimes.

~ Svetlana Alliluyeva

Injustice is a sixth sense and rouses all the others.

~ Amelia Barr

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

~ Wilfred Grenfell

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good but for neglecting his neighbor's.

~ Richard Whately

In this world we must help one another.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

Man absolutely cannot live by himself.

~ Erich Fromm

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

~ Herman Melville

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

~ George Bernard Shaw

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

~ William Barclay

There ain't nothing but one thing wrong with every one of us and that's selfishness.

~ Will Rogers

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.

~ Publilius Syrus

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Everything that lives lives not alone nor for itself.

~ William Blake

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

~ John Macnaughton

I see their souls and I hold them in my hands and because I love them they weigh nothing.

~ Pearl Bailey