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"Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out."
By Carl Sagan
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"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."
By Eric Hoffer
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."
By Eric Hoffer
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"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both."
By Eric Hoffer
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"People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self."
By Eric Hoffer
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"People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour."
By Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2
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"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
By Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"
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"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."
By Helen Keller
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"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
By Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
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"People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway."
By Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)
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"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
By Albert Einstein
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"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."
By Jawaharlal Nehru
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"People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true."
By Robert J. Ringer
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"Poor Mexico - so far from God and so close to the United States."
By Porfirio Diaz, Biography of Porfirio Diaz
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"Praise youth and it will prosper."
By Irish Proverb
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"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
By Sylvia Plath
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"Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality."
By Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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"Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education."
By Burk Hudson
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"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar."
By Thich Nhat Hanh
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"Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still."
By Robert Sternberg
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