Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. - Napoleon Hill

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One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.- Frank Zappa

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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

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People are not here to meet your expectations.

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It's lovely to see people so happy. ― Louisa May Alcott

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That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

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It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. ― Anne Frank

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Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth? ― Bill Watterson

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If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. ― Thomas Merton

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