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

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

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.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

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

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

I have no human feelings.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

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

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

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

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

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.

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

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

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

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

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

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.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

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

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.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.

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.

Money does not change people, people change.

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.

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.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

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

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

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

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

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.

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

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

People love conspiracy theories.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

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

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

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

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

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

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