The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men. — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
“What corrupt corporate governments call a terrorist is what many common people call a resistance fighter.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Common people are often enough; that is why God made so many of them. Your job is to be--- EXTRAORDINARY.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Blessed are the common people. God loves them; that is why he made millions of them. — Nnamdi Azikiwe Copy Share Image
Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people because we want to be… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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
“A Three pronged test for any belief: Can it be verified by the sights and senses of common people? How is it… — Mozi Copy Share Image
“Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an "elite" class of celebrities better than the common people has… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
“Common people rushed to trade in their “low-born” surnames (such as Pi) for a more respected Kim or Park. This explains why… — Daniel Tudor 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
It is obviously good and proper to respect the U.S. flag, perpetuated with the blood of American heroes. On the other hand,… — Sherman Skolnick 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
“the organization of labor is only another word for the forms of life of the common people, this means that the development… — Karl Polanyi 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
“Charles Cooley (1956) wrote that primary groups, those groups such as the family and neighborhood where we have our earliest and most… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
Both learned and unlearned young men seldom go to church, and in general do not attend to their spiritual education, looking upon… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
“If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it’s only in the same way… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“The other pioneer of political public relations was Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, who sharpened his skills writing prowar propaganda… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There always are and always will be some strange personalities in our country, whatever the conditions, who though peaceful and not at… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies,… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
“Limiting the power of government, in order to liberate the individual, was the great American revolutionary insight. Too much cooperation, avoiding conflict… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Let me say (a few words) about this doctrine by way of criticism. So many Kalpas we spent never meeting with this… — Kaiten Nukariya 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
Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy,… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open,… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
I believe in nature and humanity and am here to serve the common people of Pakistan. There is a great deal of… — Abdul Sattar Edhi Copy Share Image
“She's extremely common, but that doesn't matter. Lots of common people are charming. Like bounders. I believe no woman ever falls passionately… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The common people don't believe this kind of religion [of islamic fundamentalists] because first and foremost they want to solve their basic… — Abdul Sattar Edhi Copy Share Image
Governments must not run only for elections. The government should be a bona fide attempt of meeting the demands and expectations of… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I do this work for the common people and part of that work is creating a general awareness of such problems as… — Abdul Sattar Edhi Copy Share Image