Common Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Common man Deserve Deserves Good Exactly Wants Good Hard Greatness Hard Knows Men Want Wants Deserves
I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least. — Vince McMahon Copy Share Image
It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man. — Nancy Astor Copy Share Image
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
“Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as "every decent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
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