The People Quotes

“Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Those who count things are not worthy of assisting the people.”
― Zhuangzi, The Book of Chuang Tzu

“Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change in their nation, those who are in control no longer need to worry about any significant challenge to their power.”
― Dave Champion

“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Go to the poor, be the poor. Go to the people, be the people.”
― Russian nihilist proverb

“The People's' historic duty was to become a nameless herd and submit to the absolute control of a small pack of wily and vicious intellectuals.”
― Charles Portis

“If king needs to be treated by psychiatrist,
then the people need replacements for both.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“vox populi, vox deorum”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

“say what the masses want just to win the masses and never do what the masses want and you will loose the masses”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Who is the true friend of the people? Fascism is. Who has done the most for the working man? The USSR or Hitler? Hitler has... Who has done the most for the small businessman? Not Thorez but Hitler!”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, L'école des cadavres

“Nineteenth-century Russian literature, swooning with compassion for the suffering brother, had created for Nerzhin, and for everyone reading it for the first time, the image of a haloed, silvery-haired People, embodying all wisdom, moral purity, and spiritual grandeur.
But that was far away, on bookshelves; it was somewhere else, in the villages and fields at the crossroads of the nineteenth century. The heavens unfolded, the twentieth century came, and those places had long since ceased to exist under Russian skies.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle

“The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government--But, the Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.' -- GEORGE WASHINGTON, Farewell Address (1796)”
― John A. Ragosta, For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry’s Final Political Battle

“In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders cling on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.”
― Sayed Hassan Nasrallah

“All the humanity (Not the people!), are incrediable. What makes them incrediable is the way of thinking, the way of solving!”
― Deyth Banger

“Ah! The people! Formed, deformed, welded and disassembled; in short, invented from scratch. The people are a myth and do not exist; unfortunately for them they are the only ones not knowing it.”
― Lamine Pearlheart, To Life from the Shadows

“The people are the known unknown variable.”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Aether

“The only countervailing force that might eventually turn things in a better direction is an informed and mobilized citizenry. Whatever their shortcomings, the people are our best hope. Indeed, we are they. Whether or not the ruling circles still wear blackshirts, and whether or not their opponents are Reds, la lutta continua, the struggle continues, today, tomorrow, and through all history.”
― Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

“The properly constituted State is the servant of the people at all times, the guarantor of the Commonwealth, and the means through which every citizen is optimized. To oppose the State, as anarchists do, is to oppose the People themselves. The State is the People.”
― Tom Strabo, National Capitalism: How to Save America

“Any democratically elected government that listens more to its campaign financiers than its citizens, takes the demands of financial lenders sine qua non and those of its impoverished citizenry non exitus, is a failed government, corrupt and incompetent. It's not a government for the people and by the people, it is a government by the Whores for power!”
― Njau Kihia