Peoples

Famous quotes containing the word peoples:

    “History ... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
    But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
    —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

    “The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere, it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.”
    —Giambattista Vico (1688–1744)