Common Quote by Herbert Hoover Download Open image “We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.” — Herbert Hoover ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Common man Cult Danger Developing Mean Mediocrity Men Modern Modern life
The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
I think I could create a cult, no problem. The hard part is getting people to kill themselves. — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival. — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival. This quest for… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
“People do not knowingly join “cults” that will ultimately destroy and kill them. People join self-help groups, churches, political movements, college campus dinner socials,… — Deborah Layton Copy Share Image
While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when… — Herbert Hoover 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