No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy. — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse. — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“The majority of the common people do not realize that calling 911 may result in a stressed out armed police officer that… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Common sense, to me, is simple. And I've never understood why there aren't a lot of people trying to figure out how… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
