People Quotes

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

~ Paul Simon

Anyone who supports terrorism, anyone who sees terrorism as a legitimate means, anyone who uses terrorism to cause the death of innocent people is a terrorist in my eyes.

~ Milos Zeman

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

~ Heinrich Heine

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

~ Frank Dobson

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

~ Danny Glover

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.

~ James Hetfield

As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

~ Tom Araya

I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.

~ Sebastian Junger

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.

~ Huston Smith

Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!

~ Alison Owen

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

~ Noam Chomsky

There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.

~ Jennifer Lopez

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

~ Tahar Ben Jelloun

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

~ Conor Oberst

People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

~ J. G. Ballard

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

~ Terry Pratchett

Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on... But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.

~ Michael Greger

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

~ Harry Browne

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.

~ John Grisham

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

~ Peter Mullan

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.

~ Steven Pinker

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

~ Aubrey De Grey

I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.

~ David Suchet

Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

~ Faith Hunter

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

~ Khalil Gibran

The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.

~ Junot Díaz

People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.

~ David Duchovny

I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.

~ Rufus Wainwright

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

~ Jessica Simpson

The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

~ Karl Pilkington

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

~ Simon Mcburney

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

~ Taylor Caldwell

Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.

~ Paul Stamets

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

~ Henry Van Dyke

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

~ Rex Hunt

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

~ Chief Joseph

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

~ Rudyard Kipling

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

~ Bob Dylan

The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are being rightwing. Not just rightwing. Extreme rightwing. I don't understand how you can be so upset about the Christian right and just ignore the Islamic right. I'm talking about equality.

~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali