Best Common People Quotes
85 Common People quotes by 70 unique authors
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The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.
— Warren Miller
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If I take donations from Big Corporates to fund our election campaign, I'll be accountable to them and would have to do what they tell…
— Arvind Kejriwal
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Both learned and unlearned young men seldom go to church, and in general do not attend to their spiritual education, looking upon it as unnecessary…
— John of Kronstadt
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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
— Roger Ascham
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Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent.
— Woody Allen
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The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
— George Orwell
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Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
— James Howell
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It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
— Adam Weishaupt
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The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to…
— James Morcan
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No genuine change in society ever occurs without the mass public getting behind a cause. The good guys in government are counting on enough of…
— James Morcan
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Network marketing is the only industry that allows common people to earn millions with a minimal investment and zero overhead, coupled with total time freedom…
— Mark Yarnell
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Blessed are the common people. God loves them; that is why he made millions of them.
— Nnamdi Azikiwe
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For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of…
— Kathe Kollwitz
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How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit,…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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You know Lincoln's famous remark about "God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them?" Well, you are not going…
— Will Rogers
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Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking…
— Criss Jami
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When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!
— August Strindberg
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If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere - let…
— Paul Robeson
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Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason.
— John Selden
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May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
— Charles Dickens
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
— H. L. Mencken
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Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world…
— George Jean Nathan
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