People
- Abbas (name), an Arabic surname and given name
- Mahmoud Abbas, President of Palestinian National Authority
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.”
—Renata Adler (b. 1938)
“Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.”
—Kenneth MacKenzie Clark, Baron of Saltwood (1903–1983)