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

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

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

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Human beings need stories, and we’re looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it’s television, whether it’s comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

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

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.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

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.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

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.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

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

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

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?

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

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

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

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.

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

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

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

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

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

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

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

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.