Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Benjamin

People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the "whites only" signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.

Walter Benjamin

I don't have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating.

Walter Benjamin

I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change.

Walter Benjamin

How lovely it is to live with a sense of community. To live where you can drop in the street and a million people will come and help you.

Walter Benjamin

I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life.

Walter Benjamin

People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

Walter Benjamin

We're living in a very tricky world, and unless we become analytical and expose the tricknology, people will become sucked into that. It is very easy, it is very, very easy.

Walter Benjamin

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people.

O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.

Barack Obama

We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

Banksy

People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one

Banksy

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

Banksy

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

Banksy

Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers,

Banksy

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

Banksy

Some people criticize me for using sources that are a bit low brow (this quote is from 'Gladiator') but you know what? 'I'm just going to use that hostility to make me stronger, not weaker' as Kelly Rowland said on the X Factor,

Banksy

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

Ayn Rand

I used to call people, then I got into e-mailing, then texting, and now I just ignore everyone.

Linda McMahon

I have said from the beginning, I would spend what it would take for the people of Connecticut to know who I am and what I stand for.

Genesis Rodriguez

It's very important to me that people see I am an American and I was born in the States.

Shaquille O'Neal

When you're in championships, it's never about what you do. It's always about what other people do.

Ben Carson

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

Ben Carson

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

Beeban Kidron

I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance.

Tom Hollander

My parents are very lovely people - the sort of people that one should aspire to be like, really.

Tyler, The Creator

I'm a pretty nice dude. I have fun, and people take it the wrong way.

We're not tilting at windmills anymore. People are talking about it everywhere.

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.

Vivienne Westwood

The last people with any ideas are young people.

Dan Stevens

Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.

Gordon Bethune

I learned that you can be successful if you get people to help you become successful.

Charlie Rose

I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.