People Quotes

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

~ William E. Gladstone

Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

~ Salman Rushdie

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.

~ Langston Hughes

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

~ Huey Newton

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

~ Andrew Jackson

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

~ Stephen King

Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the studio with before. People are so different. It's almost like you need to go through the process, discover and unlock what it is that makes that band that band. And a lot of times they don't know it.

~ Rick Rubin

I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can't emerge from a franchise and do well, that's a very strong driving force.

~ Daniel Radcliffe

I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I'll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I'm afraid that I'll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.

~ Marcus Buckingham

So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and view with fear, I am afraid that educational denial, medical and economic devastation, and aesthetic degradation will be inevitable.

~ Jonathan Kozol

I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

~ George Lucas

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

~ Jane Welsh Carlyle

From racial profiling and being pulled over just for 'driving while black' to this new phenomenon of killing unarmed people out of some preconceived idea of fear, our lives and our children's lives are not being valued.

~ Al Sharpton

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

~ Maggie Kuhn

Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

~ John Robinson

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

~ James Bovard

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

~ Wilhelm Reich

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

~ Warren Buffett

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.

~ Kathleen Hanna

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

~ Frank Ocean

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

~ Louis V. Gerstner

I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about.

~ Hubert Selby

I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of technology, transportation, and the ways people choose to communicate. If I had a theme song, it would be that lovely song 'I'm Old-Fashioned,' as sung by Ella Fitzgerald.

~ Julia Glass

Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.

~ P. J. O'rourke

You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.

~ Kate Winslet

People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.

~ Anthony Bourdain

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

~ Eric Hoffer

What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.

~ Michele Bachmann

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

~ Eric Cantona

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

~ Jack Nicholson

I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.

~ Ratan Tata

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

~ Norman Borlaug

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

~ Daniel H. Wilson

To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.

~ Darren Aronofsky

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

~ Daniel Clowes

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

~ Dan Gable

My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.

~ Samantha Bee

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

~ Robin Quivers