A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
James Madison

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
James Madison

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Thomas A. Edison

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
Marcus Aurelius

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
Meister Eckhart

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
Meister Eckhart

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T. S. Eliot

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
Oswald Chambers

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.
Chris Rock

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
P. J. O'Rourke

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
P. J. O'Rourke

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Thomas Merton

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali

We never love a person, but only qualities.
Blaise Pascal

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
John Locke

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
Woody Allen

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes