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People Quotes


"People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them."


"Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice."


"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."


"And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons."


"I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country."


"They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land."


"I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again."


"A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world."


"National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence."


"We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination."


"The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle."


"I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are."


"It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person."


"All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride."


"The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world."


"I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world."


"It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people."


"I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it's kind of therapeutic in a way."


"I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights."


"That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing."


"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."


"Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world."


"The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight."


"Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me."


"Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together."


"For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me."


"Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide."


"People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency."
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