“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
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Quotes about people
“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
“Angry people are not always wise.”
“What happens when people open their hearts?” “They get better.”
“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
“One may reasonably ask: Why do people cling to the values and practices of the past, when they so obviously no longer work? Long-standing thought patterns are hard to overcome because they often appear to serve the interests of the individual, and old ways of thinking are simpler and easier
“Either we learn to live together in full cooperation or we will cause our own extinction.”
“There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions.”
“Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free.”
“What is needed is the intelligent management of Earth’s resources. If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems, we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world’s people.”
“I don’t get upset if people think I’m crazy. If you go to a mental hospital and someone calls you a name, would you get upset? Of course not. Well, that’s the way I think about the world. They don’t know any better.”
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.”
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can
“People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.”