Common People Quotes

85 quotes by 72 authors

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. — Napoleon Bonaparte
preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people. — Thomas Jefferson
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
Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people. — Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
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
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
Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
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
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
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
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
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Debasement was limited at first to oneâ€™s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins across the border… — Charles P. Kindleberger
To worry before the common people worries; To enjoy only after the people can enjoy. — Fan Zhongyan
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
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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