We are a bit overpopulated. Here are some proverbs and quotes about people.
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People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.
Jess C. ScottPeople are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.
Mick JaggerPeople are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!
Greta ThunbergPeople can believe in evolution without understanding it, and vice versa.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
Malcolm MuggeridgePeople don't think and thus get fooled by priests and Trumpalikes.
MinkukelPeople fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Jim MorrisonPeople love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Albert EinsteinPeople say I'm a drinker
But I'm sober half the time
Mick JaggerBut I'm sober half the time
Source: Lyrics: Evening Gown
People seek out big shots as flies seek out the elephant's tail.
People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.
Kelly BrookPeople travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
Dagobert D. RunesPeople who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
Stephen HawkingPeople who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
Leo J. BurkePeople who want to lead, should not be allowed to lead.
(unknown author)People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
Dave BarryPeople with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.
(unknown author)People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
Stephen HawkingPerhaps if the churches had had the courage to lay their emphasis where Christ laid it, we might not have come to this frame of mind in which it is assumed that the value of all work, and the value of all people, is to be assessed in terms of economics.
Dorothy L. SayersSource: Striding Folly
Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.
Konrad LorenzProperly speaking, there is no certainty; there are only people who are certain.
(unknown author)Quiet people have the loudest minds.
Stephen HawkingReligion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
Richard DawkinsReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Seneca the YoungerReligion seems to have a way of making people abandon logic.
Amanda BaxterRetirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
Malcolm ForbesSome people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.
Stephen Graham JonesSome people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
Roger MillerSome people should come with a 'brains not included' sticker.
Laurel CliveSome people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Roger MillerSome people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander PopeSome people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.
Stephen HawkingSometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
Laurence J. PeterSometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: Wives and Daughters
Statler: You think this show is educational?
Waldorf: Yes it will drive people to read books.
(unknown author)Waldorf: Yes it will drive people to read books.
Source: The Muppet Show
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.
Stupid people will mistake your confidence for arrogance.
Habeeb AkandeTake no notice of the stupid things people say.
The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.
Javier BardemThe biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.
Bertrand RussellThe biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
Princess DianaThe colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands, saying how do you do
They're only saying I love you
Louis ArmstrongAlso on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands, saying how do you do
They're only saying I love you
Source: Lyrics: What a Wonderful World
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.
Dave BarryThe English language is a rich verbal tapestry woven together from the tongues of the Greeks, the Latins, the Angles, the Klaxtons, the Celtics, and many more other ancient peoples, all of whom had severe drinking problems.
Dave BarryThe great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.
Jon RonsonThe great tragedy about social media was how it gave a voice to brainless people.
MinkukelThe most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.
Christina AguileraThe older you get the more it seems the world belongs to other people.
Bill BrysonSource: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn't know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.
Chuck Palahniuk