People Quotes

God does not intend people, and does not like people, to be too good. He likes them neither too good nor too bad, but a little too bad is more venial with him than a little too good.

Samuel Butler

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

Susan B. Anthony

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Samuel Butler

When I am dead I would rather people thought me better than I was instead of worse; but if they think me worse, I cannot help it and, if it matters at all, it will matter more to them than to me.

Samuel Butler

It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.

Samuel Butler

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you can.

John Wesley

You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.

Orson Scott Card

We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.

Orson Scott Card

Law can change how people behave when others are watching that's all.

Orson Scott Card

When people say perhaps its cause theyre lying. Either they dont believe the thing theyre saying, or they do believe it only they dont want to admit they do.

Orson Scott Card

Im neutral on lying, seeing as how theres times when the truth just hurts people.

Orson Scott Card

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

Stokely Carmichael

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Young people must break machines to learn how to use them; get another made!

Henry Cavendish

I wonder will death be much lonelier than life. Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You can live close against other people yet your lives never touch. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even coming and going.

Emily Carr