Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

In our popular mythology, the lower classes are decent, hardworking, and possessed of simple piety and common sense-as long as they stay downwind.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

When people cease to complain, they cease to think.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Most people would rather get than give affection.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right's no guarantee against misfortune.

Apparently, he thought, there were people in this world who simply never came clear ... In the end you had to accept that the day would never arrive when you finally understood what they were all about. For some reason, this made him supremely happy.

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

A really great people, proud and high-spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.

People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

People who know how to act are never preachers.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.