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Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

James Weldon Johnson

People of Substance may Sin without being expos'd for their stolen Pleasure; but Servants and the Poorer sort of Women have seldom an Opportunity of concealing a Big Belly, or at least the Consequences of it.

Bernard Mandeville

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

Alexander Cockburn

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

Donald Rumsfeld

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

Roger Nash Baldwin

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is — and that is the point I want to stress — that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word... I ask whether it is not possible to see in the present social conflict of the world an analogous struggle between two, three, five equally serious verities and equally generous idealisms? I think it is possible, and that is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a human truth is opposed to another human truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive worth against worth no less positive, instead of the struggle being as we are so often told, one between noble truth and vile selfish error.

The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody.

Lysander Spooner

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Frank Moore Colby

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

Logan Pearsall Smith

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. (2.9).

The more information a guy has, the more likely he is to say, "Hey, King Charlie, you really blew that call." That's why democracy happened. The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans... unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.

James L. Buckley

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. They claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

Chögyam Trungpa