Persons Quotes

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last.

It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.