Quotes and Sayings About People
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People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
-- Abdullah Ibrahim -
The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.
-- Abdullah Ibrahim -
I used to be someone who would not even tread on an ant. But this is a war for honor and self-defense. A 100 percent elimination policy (by Ankara of the Kurds) has forced me to defense and it has become a glorious defense of a people.
-- Abdullah Ocalan -
Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.
-- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia -
Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.
-- Abdurrahman Wahid -
If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
-- Abdurrahman Wahid -
The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.
-- Abel Ferrara -
In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
-- Abel Hermant -
Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
-- Aberjhani -
Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
-- Aberjhani -
We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
-- Aberjhani -
If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
-- Abigail Adams -
I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
-- Abigail Breslin -
People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.
-- Abigail Breslin -
I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
-- Abigail Breslin -
I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.
-- Abigail Breslin -
A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
-- Abigail Breslin -
Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.
-- Abigail Johnson -
By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.
-- Abigail McCarthy -
It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.
-- Abigail McCarthy -
It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
People pleasing doesn't allow you to receive.
-- Abiola Abrams -
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
-- Abraham Cahan -
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
-- Abraham Cowley -
[Castellani's testimony] clearly illustrates the concern we have that there is no way to separate the efforts to proselytize from the efforts to reform people.
-- Abraham Foxman -
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel
