top of page
"It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more People quotes

"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
Explore more quotes by Marya Mannes

"For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."

"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."

"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."

"Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier."

"I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society."
bottom of page