It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Yes, and Eliza and I composed a precocious critique of the Constitution of the United Staes of America, too. We argued that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It is easy to blame your lot in life on some outside force, to stop trying because you believe fate is against… — William H. McRaven Copy Share Image
How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
You know Lincoln's famous remark about "God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them?" Well, you… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Rouncewell holds this opinion because she considers that a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Over time, it is all too common for people to lose touch with their heritage, as the thrill and immediacy of the… — Eric Jay Dolin Copy Share Image
“Because the Indians are planning to start war now, the common people want all of them destroyed so that they can live… — Johann Martin Boltzius Copy Share Image
In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is… — African Spir Copy Share Image
“There is never any lack at Athens of tongues ready and willing to stir up the passions of the common people; this… — Livy Copy Share Image
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The political terms 'will' and 'popular will' have a long track record in Western history going back to Rousseau. That record is… — John Leo Copy Share Image
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“There is no greater environmental stabilizer than commoners jolted to duty.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“You know," he said to his mother, "I don't want to belong to the well-to-do middle class. I like my common people… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, sleepers turn up as common people who do everyday things, and create a new destiny for themselves when nobody’s watching.” — Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D Copy Share Image
Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
What is religion? I want to remove the chaff from the grain. For me it is not what it is for the… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
“But the workingpeople, the common people, they won't allow it.' 'It's the common people who get most fun out of the torture… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal… — Jan Phillips Copy Share Image
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to… — Bertolt Brecht 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
