People's Character Quotes

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

Every government is the exact symbol of its people ... Like People like Government.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Like king, like law; like law, like people.

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.

Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their people. A people without heroes is a people without leaders, for only a heroic leader is a true leader able to withstand the challenge of difficult times.

One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.

There's something in people's character, particularly the British character, about unfairness. They don't like it.

There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

To know a people's character, we must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to the humbler abodes where that portion of the people dwells which makes the broad basis of the national prosperity.