“Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.”

Source: Heir to the Empire

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science fiction novelist 1951

Charles Sheffield book Proteus In The Underworld

Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 14 (p. 190)

“When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad — yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there's nothing new in it. Just a golden color. What the hell, right? When people start playing with color, you know they're played out.”

Václav Smil (1943) Canadian geographer

This Is the Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading http://wired.com/2013/11/vaclav-smil-wired/all/1 in Wired (25 November 2013)

“People are the most important things in this life. Treat them as something precious because that is exactly what they are. Just like our beautiful Planet, we are all insignificant compared to the vastness of the Universe. We are all essentially equal. We are not alone and isolated: when you hurt someone, you hurt yourself; when you help someone, you help yourself.”

Marcos Pontes (1963) Brazilian astronaut

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20110811215758/http://www.marcospontes.com/curriculo/curriculo.htm Curriculum recovered on Internet Archive

“… there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them…”

Sherman Alexie (1966) Native American author and filmmaker

Source: Smoke Signals: A Screenplay

“It all depends on whatyou're talking about helping. That's the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet - they're all so incredibly selfish.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

“It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.”

Nancy Garden book Annie on My Mind

Source: Annie on My Mind

“People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

“It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“When it comes right down to physical war and bloodshed, governments don’t protect people; people protect governments.”

L. K. Samuels (1951) American writer

Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 180

“Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.”

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