Eugene J. Martin: Quotes about people

“Americans are simple people with simple interests – The only time they sincerely ask “why” about anything is when they don’t receive their paychecks.”

Eugene J. Martin

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

People , Time , Sincerity

“People fight not because they disagree, but because they don’t know they agree.”

Eugene J. Martin

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

People , Fight

“The more fortunate people among us would surely think we are civilized, but the less fortunate among us are a reminder that we’re not.”

Eugene J. Martin

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

People , Thinking

“Technology has not advanced because people are starved for instruments to make a better civilization, but because they are starved for entertainment – technology is still mostly a toy factory for grown-ups.”

Eugene J. Martin

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

People

“People find it easy to justify their frustration in the struggle to manipulate others, but find it hard to justify the struggle for their own growth.”

Eugene J. Martin

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

People

“Truth is so large OR people’s minds are so small that they’re only able to nibble on the edges – and when growth brings them to the area where they can feed on truth itself, as they move in and eat of the seed, there they become truth.”

Eugene J. Martin

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

People , Truth

“There are lesser people not for what they are, but for why they are.”

Eugene J. Martin

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

People

“People have learned to escape reality very well but too often lose their way back.”

Eugene J. Martin

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

People , Way , Reality , Learning

“Beware of the possible reason some people are honestly down and out - it is because they tried to copy the many who are superficially doing well.”

Eugene J. Martin

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

People

“Rather than studying the laws of cause and effect, people spend their lives being the effect and running from the cause.”

Eugene J. Martin

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

People , Law , Study

“It’s a great tragedy that the ability to act is used to manipulate people, but it is a greater tragedy that people welcome it while sometimes making a phony protest.”

Eugene J. Martin

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

People

“Vanity begins and ends with deception, so the reason people put interesting and attractive clothes on their bodies is perhaps the same for having uninteresting and unattractive expressions on their faces.”

Eugene J. Martin

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

People , Clothes

“It’s past time that people get involved in thinking – now that the computers can take over the field of memory.”

Eugene J. Martin

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

People , Thinking , Memory , Time

“Because of subconscious guilt, people spend half their lives in self-punishment and the other half taking on more guilt.”

Eugene J. Martin

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

People

“Rather than programming children as if they were computers, parents should be something like art instructors. Because life is like a clump-of-clay, you can’t make it into an expression of beauty, unless you take it into your hands. While sprinkling their lives with painful and playful diversions, people wait their lives miserably into old age, for the skills to live-life, to–come as did life- itself.”

Eugene J. Martin

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

Life , Pain , Children , People