Jimmy Quote by Jeremy Rifkin

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention…

— Garrett Hardin

The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics

— Clare Short

“*THE COMMONS, which are creative - so unleash their potential* The commons are shareable resources of society or nature that people choose to use…

— Kate Raworth

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

— Oscar Wilde

Westminster's hardly a billboard for people-centred politics. Given its makeup, the term 'Commons' is pretty ironic, too.

— Caroline Lucas

Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very large; the…

— Richard Dawkins

Think of a public library, worth more for those who cannot afford numerous books. Think of a public waterway or fishing ground. All types…

— Guy Standing

I have always been a House of Commons man.

— John Diefenbaker

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

— Jimmy Wales

“This is the paradox presented by every general library: that if, to a lesser or greater extent, it intends to accumulate and preserve as…

— Alberto Manguel

The House of Commons is a great unwieldy body, which requires great Art and some Cordials to keep it loyal.

— Henry Pelham