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People Quotes by Norman Mailer
- I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential -…
- Sex is not only a divine and beautiful activity; it's a murderous activity. People kill each other in bed. Some of the greatest crimes ever…
- In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
- Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were always…
- The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
- People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.
- I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told…
- As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.
- America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who…
- The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture
- I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle