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With Dada I … have in common a certain mistrust toward power. We don't like authority, we don't like power, To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete. It's a political attitude which doesn't need to found a political party. It's not a matter of taking power; when you are against it, you can't take it. We're against all forms of force which aggregate and crystallize an authority that oppresses people. Obviously this is not a characteristic of my art alon-it's much more general, a basic political attitude. It's a clear intention, more necessary today than ever, to oppose all forms of force emanating from a managing, centralising political power.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person — as the people in this room will attest.

Janeane Garofalo

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

Stephen Sondheim

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

Chester A. Arthur

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them. My philosophy is to stay as close as possible to what's happening. If I can't solve something, how the hell can I expect my managers to?

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health.

George Matthew Adams

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

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

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.

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

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

James L. Buckley

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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

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

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