People

People

A people is a plurality of persons considered as a whole, as in an ethnic group or nation. Collectively, for example, Jews are known as "the Jewish people", European Gypsies comprise the bulk of "the Romani people", and Palestinian Arabs have started to be called "the Palestinian people".

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    “I’d wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.”
    —Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)

    “Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.”
    —Milan Kundera (b. 1929)