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People Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it…
- Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of…
- Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.
- Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.
- Globally, as the nation-state becomes increasingly less meaningful - a provider of positive goods and more and more just an army and some domestic enforcement…
- People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.
- Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.
- The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival…
- Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we - and some of the beauty of this world - will be…
- When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the…
- Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors...disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between…
- Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes…
- Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but in fact are…
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