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People Quotes

Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.

This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.

Quotes by Ahmet Ertegun

Flashy people aren't everything, you know. Even when they have frizzled hair.

Quotes by Ahmet Ertegun

As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and experienced an immediate empathy with the victims of such senseless discrimination. Because although the Turks were never slaves, they were...

Quotes by Ahmet Ertegun

I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

Quotes by Ahmet Ertegun

Good Quotes

An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people deserve it.

Quotes by Ahmet Davutoglu

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his...

Quotes by Ahmet Ertegun

I teach at Caltech and oversee a research laboratory there. In general, I find that the majority of young people are excited by the prospects of research, but they soon discover that in the current market, many doctorate-level scientists are...

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

I can tell you that the majority of the Egyptians I know, they think of a much wider spectrum of people than the Muslim Brotherhood.

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

Molecules A and B meet, marry, and beget the species. This takes place in one-millionth of a billionth of a second. This is a fundamental process in nature, and the world was looking for a way to be able to...

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

Life Quotes

What the U.S. should do consistently is to support the liberty of the Egyptian people.

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

On Sunday August 5, 2012, I was among a group of people who witnessed the Rover landing on Mars in real time at NASA's Caltech-managed Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

Like everywhere in the world, people of the Middle East aspire to liberty and justice. They wish to have a better life and a decent education for their children.

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

I think I succeeded in getting the Egyptian people excited about the importance of science, and this is the only way Egypt can get out of this dark ages.

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

The universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about, and there will be always young people, brilliant, who are going to make new discoveries.

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

Like Quotes

To handle the economy and services in a country like Iraq requires delegation of authority and the choice of competent people.

Quotes by Ahmed Chalabi

The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage....

Quotes by Ahmed Chalabi

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

Quotes by Ahmed Chalabi

I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.

Quotes by Ahmed Chalabi

I don't think that they have many of the scientists who were involved in the weapons program to talk to at this time, and there were thousands of people, engineers and scientists, they know where the weapons are.

Quotes by Ahmed Chalabi

Love Quotes

It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism.

Quotes by Ahmed Chalabi

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of quotes are on the "People" page?
This collection leans observational — quotes about how people behave, especially in a world of surveillance and data. You'll find lines about the trails people leave online, the explosion of tracking technology like cameras and DNA fingerprinting, and a blunt warning: "Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people."
Are these quotes more about society than individuals?
Yes, largely. Rather than personal feelings, most of these quotes zoom out to comment on people as a group — how we're watched, tracked, and recognized automatically. If you want something warmer and more personal, Love quotes might be a better fit.
Why would someone want quotes about privacy and surveillance?
They're useful for starting a conversation or making a point — whether you're writing a caption about digital privacy or just want a sharp line that captures a modern anxiety. The encryption quote above works well for exactly that.
Is this page similar to <a href="/life-quotes">Life</a> quotes?
There's some overlap since both touch on big-picture ideas, but "People" is more specifically about how individuals behave and are observed within society, while Life quotes cast a wider net over existence in general.
What's a good way to use these quotes?
They work well as captions for posts about technology, privacy, or human behavior, or simply as food for thought. Pair them with something upbeat from Good quotes or Like quotes if you want to balance the tone of what you're sharing.

Several quotes here raise concerns about surveillance and encryption, a recurring subject among the public figures quoted. For more wide-ranging reflections, browse Good Quotes or Love Quotes.