"What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone."

People, Hope, Promises

38

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone."

Exlpore more People quotes

"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

People, Communism, Living, Russia

"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

People, Bed, Now, Smoking

"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

People, Gay, Kids, Law

"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

People, Hate, Tea

"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

People,

"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

People, Feeling

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

William James, American Philosopher

People, First, Wind

"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

William James, American Philosopher

People, Thinking

"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

People, Hope, Race, Will

"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

People, Murder

Explore more quotes by Hermann Broch

"Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part."

Thought

"Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves."

Information

"The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason."

Progress

"One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head."

Hatred

"No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness."

Death

"What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone."

People