So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people!

Jean-Paul Sartre

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good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws

Plato

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My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.

Chief Seattle

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It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

Maureen Corrigan

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People are the most difficult thing in the world to change

Gena Showalter

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There are two kinds of people,’ she’d said. ‘Those who coast through life like ducks in a row, following one after the other, and those who ride the waves.’” Tears spilled down my cheeks, and my voice cracked. “‘Ride the waves, baby, and live. Live.

Gena Showalter

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Mean people suck

Jim Goad

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A leader is best
When people barely know he exists
Of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, “We did this ourselves.

Lao Tzu

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Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.

Michel Faber

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The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.

Terry Pratchett

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