#ordinary people

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things? ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#alien #been #dumb #evil #good

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people. ↗

— Joseph Lelyveld

#any #before #britain #country #europe

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#good #good ideas #ideas #lots #more

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. ↗

— Socrates

#apply #death #directly #dying #ordinary

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. ↗

— Socrates

#doing #doing good #good #had #harm

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#forces #got #i #large #ordinary

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#ambition #corporations #country #extraordinary #founded

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art. ↗

— Russell Banks

#american #art #classics #early #early age

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. ↗

— Viola Davis

#did #extraordinary #extraordinary things #fascinating #help

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy. ↗

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

#decent #decent standard #enjoy #ever #i