If folk is the music of the common people and not the intellectual elite, then that's what rock is. — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner. — John of Salisbury Copy Share Image
“Elites are always indifferent and unconcerned to the plight of common people.” — Jeffrey Fry Copy Share Image
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“As Shakespeare points out, it is common for people to die. Going” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“There is no greater environmental stabilizer than commoners jolted to duty.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
No genuine change in society ever occurs without the mass public getting behind a cause. The good guys in government are counting… — James Morcan 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
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
I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have… — George Orwell 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
“Captain Kidd said, It has been said by authorities that the law should apply the same to the king and to the… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
“I spent many years charting their course, and documenting the banks they visited, the associations they had in common. Jack Ruby did… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Common people tend to term any kind of bizarre phenomenon as “paranormal” or “supernatural”. They often exaggerate it as the work of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Romanticism valued individual voices, including those of women and "common people." They tended to idealize the pastoral lives of farmers, shepherds, milkmaids,… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“About Russia: Ironically, in the country where common people’s dislike and fear of their state takes place, we can hear much more… — Leo Pevsner Copy Share Image
It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“You must understand something, George. The world's leaders create catastrophes and resolve them-- all at their own whimsy-- every single day. It… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
“But, to return to my design, what power was it that drew those stony, oaken, and wild people into cities but flattery?… — Erasmus Copy Share Image
“I've said this before: a lot of people think they're artists because they feel things deeply. You know, we're in a culture… — Dan Schneider 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
“though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found generally true: that ages… — George Orwell 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
“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
“Because you forgot that the path to knowledge is a path that's open to everyone, to the common people.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image