It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools. — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“It was so easy to sell anything to the common people, if one could add an element of magic and some religion… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common! — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“Herodotus, the ‘Father of History’, records the moment – and you can hear the emotion in his voice as he does so,… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
It is fashionable to scoff at Americans, but they routinely produce most of the important and ground-breaking entertainment in the world. 'Popular… — Ian O'Doherty Copy Share Image
Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy,… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“I rejoice greatly that the simple faith of this sacrament is still to be found, at least among the common people. For… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions,… — Polybius Copy Share Image
I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
If I take donations from Big Corporates to fund our election campaign, I'll be accountable to them and would have to do… — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
Network marketing is the only industry that allows common people to earn millions with a minimal investment and zero overhead, coupled with… — Mark Yarnell Copy Share Image
Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but… — Mary Elizabeth Lease Copy Share Image
All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Why does God not declare himself as the God of Adam? For we know that Abraham sinned even as Adam did. Why… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“most common people oft he market-place much prefer light literature to improving books. The problem is, that so many romances contain slanderous… — Cao Xueqin Copy Share Image
“When we recall the great influence which Spenser's poetry has exerted on English poets who have lived and written since his day,… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Bread plays favorites. From the earliest times, it acts as a social marker, sifting the poor from the wealthy, the cereal from… — Christa Parrish Copy Share Image
“[FN#268] Se-ji-hyaku-dan. 12. 'The Five Ranks of Merit.' Thus far we have stated how to train our body and mind according to… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Philosophy was right to vaunt liberty ; it is the foremost desire of all creatures. But philosophy forgot that in civilized societies… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
“There is, however, another avenue of utopian thought, one that is all but forgotten. If the blueprint is a high-resolution photo, then… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image