People
- Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, commander of the French forces in North America during the French and Indian War
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“Just as rotten wood cannot be used for pillars, so base people cannot become masters.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers’ seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)