Quotes about People
As long as the struggle was down in Alabama and Mississippi, they could look afar and think about it and say how terrible people are. When they discovered brotherhood had to be a reality in Chicago and that brotherhood extended to next door, then those latent hostilities came out.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought there were so many in the whole country as were brought together by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they were — straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real vivid flame-coloured tint.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
— Audre Lorde
You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they know it, and they know they have you. Do you ever look at the people in the street? Aren't you afraid of them? I am. They move past you and they wear hats and they carry bundles. But that's not the substance of them. The substance of them is hatred for any man who loves his work. That's the only kind they fear. I don't know why
— Ayn Rand
Ohio has produced 23 astronauts. Tell me, what is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?
— Stephen Colbert
It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.
— Stephen Hawking
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
— Martin Luther
The person who's in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The chances you take… the people you meet… the people you love...the faith that you have - that's what's going to define your life.
— Denzel Washington
To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them.
— John Maxwell
We're to love people and use things, not love things and use people.
— Adrian Rogers
Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they in turn feed it to others, and eventually it comes back.
— Hill Harper