#people

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good? ↗

— Matt Stone

#goofy #inspire #make #nice #people

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#cut #flowers #giving #grow #ineffective

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#belief #community #corrupt #cynical #existence

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#failure #learning #less #people #reasons

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#better #effective #helping #more #people

Great artists suffer for the people. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

#for the people #great #people #suffer

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#few #greatness #people #some #some people

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

#deeply #gone #i #life #me

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#folly #free #governments #managed #people

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#duty #government #keep #out #peace