quotes, quotations and passages on people

I love humankind. . . it's
people I can't stand!

Charles M. Schulz

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the thousands of breasts there is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it. Charles Dickens

Human beings are human beings before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible human beings, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians. John Stuart Mill

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Albert Schweitzer

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with
and through people. Every dollar we will ever earn must come from
people. The person we love, and with whom we want to spend the rest
of our life, is a human being with whom we must interact. Our children
are individuals, each different from any other person who ever lived.
And what affects them most is our attitude--the loving kindness they see
and feel whenever we are around them. If you'll begin to develop and
maintain an attitude that says yes to life and the world,
you'll be astonished at the changes you'll see.

Earl Nightingale

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People are more difficult to work with than machines.
And when you break a person, they can't be fixed.

Rick Riordan
The Battle of the Labyrinth

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because
of the people who are evil, but because of
the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the
company of others - even my nearest and dearest--there always
comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

Maureen Corrigan
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading

It is good people who make good places.

Anna Sewell
Black Beauty

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you
and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do,
cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

Will Smith

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about
people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for
the whole, to see the cause and think it's
the effect or vice versa.

Lauren Oliver
Before I Fall

There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they
expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who
don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people
are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing
inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.

C. JoyBell C.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing
with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with
prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends & Influence People

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding
and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people.
Leave people better than you found them.

Marvin J. Ashton

People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear,
and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their
negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to
be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you
feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let
that fuel propel you into positive action.

Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You

I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around
people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be
around people that dream and support and do things.

Amy Poehler

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

unattributed

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened
with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's
life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what
others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to
have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives,
but none about his or her own.

Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist

So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we
were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone,
the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for
red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people!

Jean-Paul Sartre
No Exit

We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance,
their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless.
What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before
they have even spoken to them. What's even worse is that these
same people decide who someone else is, and don't
even know who they are themselves.

Ashly Lorenzana

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err;
I love society. Yet in order not to hate people,
I must avoid their company.

Caspar David Friedrich

People are more than just the way they look.

Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife,
saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear
and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

Janet Fitch
White Oleander