How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases! — Tertullian Copy Share Image
whoever gives the common people food to eat is a good person whoever lets the common people starve is a bad person. — Hualing Nieh Engle Copy Share Image
They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural. — Xunzi Copy Share Image
“She represents the beauty of the common people in all its vulgarity and provocativeness.” — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common! — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
It's not about left and right, it's about common people and their issues. — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people. — Henry Ward Beecher 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
The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Yes, they think we're dumb. They call us the "common people." But I've been sitting here listening and looking and trying to… — Ralph Ellison 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
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
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
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
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
“As the generations pass they grow worse. A time will come when they have grown so wicked that they will worship power;… — Greek myth on the Iron Age 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“... intellectuals seemed to think that their life - the life of the mind, the endless self examination, the continuous autobiography afflicted… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins… — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
“To many an upright poor person, it seems needless to invent a god who will wash the feet of beggars and exalt… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There must always remain, however, from the standpoint of normal waking consciousness, a certain baffling inconsistency between the wisdom brought forth from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The Rothschilds taught the rich men of the earth to smile and be glad to permit such debts to be incurred. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... WHEN ONE LOOKS INTO THE DARKNESS THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING THERE... Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose, Enfold me in my… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
“This system is called the " system of checks and balances," because each department of the government is supposed to be a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[I}t is more common that people are monogamous not by choice, but by default.” — Tristan Taormino Copy Share Image
Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We have to fight terror in one voice, rising above politics. That is when the common people will feel secure. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“It has been my personal experience that the government engages in a wide range of frauds with the common people.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always… — Johnny Van Zant Copy Share Image
Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
To worry before the common people worries; To enjoy only after the people can enjoy. — Fan Zhongyan Copy Share Image
Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason. — John Selden Copy Share Image
