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

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.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

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

Study men, not historians.

All art is quite useless.

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

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

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.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

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

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

I am not a televangelist.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.