Common People Quotes
85 quotes by 72 authors
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is…
— Hermann Goring
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Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An…
— Edward Abbey
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It is obviously good and proper to respect the U.S. flag, perpetuated with the blood of American heroes. On the other hand, it can be…
— Sherman Skolnick
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He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise…
— Roger Ascham
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The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must…
— Winston Churchill
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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the…
— Frederick William Robertson
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That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important…
— Michel Foucault
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And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What…
— Henry Wotton
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins across the border…
— Charles P. Kindleberger
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To worry before the common people worries; To enjoy only after the people can enjoy.
— Fan Zhongyan
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I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on…
— Che Guevara
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The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
— Jean-Henri Fabre
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