Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened to me as a child. I didn’t have an eventful childhood.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

People love conspiracy theories.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.