Common Man Quotes - Page 6

• If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wisdom, Men, Past

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

  Pope Pius II

  Learning, Men, Noble Man

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• The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

  Kailash Kher

  Men, Common, Corruption

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• Today we take it for granted that the Bible is in our language. We forget that the Bible used to not be available to the common man. It's no wonder that TIME magazine recorded the number one event of the last 1,000 years was the Gutenberg printing of the Bible which made this book available in mass form to all people.

  Steve Green

  Book, Men, People

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

  Criss Jami

  Patience, Men, Cookies

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Reading, World, Pulse

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• For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Greatness, Men, People

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• The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Science, Men, Common

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1976). “The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays”, p.233, Harvard University Press

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• Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made strong enough to assert itself once more. For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered.

  Alexis Carrel

  Strong, Prayer, Exercise

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• My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Brother, Cat

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• This country [the Philippines] is like a pyramid, like a tower. It is made up of millions of stones... . And the foundation stone of this pyramid is the common man.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Country, Men, Pyramids

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• In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

  Shaffi Mather

  Men, Giving, Battle

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• The strength of the nation lies in the well-being of the common man.

  Diosdado Macapagal

  Lying, Men, Common

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• The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.

  Y. C. James Yen

  Men, People, Foundation

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• It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Luxury, Doe

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist”, p.105, VM eBooks

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• As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death!

  Lola Ridge

  Dream, Art, Book

  Lola Ridge, Daniel Tobin (2007). “Light in Hand: Selected Early Poems”, p.28, Quale Press

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• The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society's "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world - the power that creates the nation's real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political sidearm.

  Thomas Frank

  Real, War, Party

  "What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America". Book by Thomas Frank, April 1, 2007.

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• I am not in the roll of common men.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Common, Conceit

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [42]

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• See yourself as you really are. Listen to what none of your leaders and representatives dares tell you: You are a "little, common man." Understand the double meaning of these words: "little" and "common." Don't run. Have the courage to look at yourself!

  Wilhelm Reich

  Running, Men, Leader

  "Listen, Little Man!". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1948.

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• Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters.

  Lin Yutang

  Kings, Men, Common

  Lin Yutang, (2013). “Between Tears and Laughter”, p.11, Read Books Ltd

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• The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Men, Ideas, Common

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.

  E. Digby Baltzell

  Men, Civilization, Complacency

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• I don't choose to be a common man. I want to be better tomorrow than today. And through a commitment to work and discipline, but mostly hard work. I'll be a little more content, and a little different from the average guy.

  Jay Robinson

  Hard Work, Commitment, Wrestling

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• When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.

  Frank Laubach

  Jesus, Determination, Children

  Frank Charles Laubach (1958). “The world is learning compassion”

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• The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.

  Baba Amte

  Determination, Commitment, Common

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