Plato Quotes, People Quotes, Would Be Quotes

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

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It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

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I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

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When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

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The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.

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No matter how perfect & honest a person is, there will always be people to criticize. In other words, if everyone agrees with someone, there is something fundamentally wrong with what that individual is doing. If you are not criticized, you are not in the right track.

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There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

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I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism.

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It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.

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I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an almighty and if you choose not to.

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In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.

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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.

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Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.

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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

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Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.

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People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

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You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman.

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