Common Sense Quotes - Page 12

• I think that a lot of social movements, political movements, powerful ones - certainly they form, collectively, an idea of the truth which becomes hard to question. It becomes a dogma, and from the inside it starts to look like common sense.

  Julian Baggini

  Powerful, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I don't take left-right on any of my positions. I take common sense and so again, if alternative energy saves money, it creates jobs, it enhances national security, it's good for the environment - I'm trying to find who's against it, right.

  Christopher Martenson

  Trying, Energy, Environment

  "Obama’s new energy plan: Why not put the fed's trillions into renewables?". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. June 2, 2014.

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• The Left doesn't realize that unless you create a formative culture and a critical consciousness capable of changing the way people think about the common sense assumptions that drive their lives, then you've got an ideological foundation for totalitarianism that not only destroys the capacity to think critically, it destroys the capacity to have convictions at all.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, People, Culture

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• I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean he has common sense.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Mean, Thinking, Nuts

  "Stephen Baldwin: 'McCain can bring change'". Interview with Sarika Dani, www.today.com. October 24, 2008.

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• I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.

  Joe Barton

  Trying, Regulation, Epa

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• Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Reality, Earth

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• The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

  George Berkeley

  Men, Views, Firsts

  George Berkeley (1949). “Works”

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• I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.

  Herman Cain

  Believe, Cutting, Balance

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• My message of common-sense solutions is resonating with people. People around the country are starting to know who I am and starting to identify me with solutions, not rhetoric.

  Herman Cain

  Country, Who I Am, People

  "Herman Cain's surprising rise to GOP front-runner" by Sandhya Somashekhar, www.washingtonpost.com. October 6, 2011.

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• People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

  Benjamin Carson

  Honesty, People, Nations

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• If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

  Steve Chabot

  Thinking, People, Use

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• The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

  William J. Clinton

  Government, Political, Politics

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 1, January 1 to June 30, 1995”, Government Printing Office

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• Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Common, Vulgar

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• Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

  Mason Cooley

  Running, Philosophy, Literature

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• The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

  William Hazlitt

  Prejudice, Common, Behinds

  William Hazlitt (1826). “Notes of a journey through France and Italy ...”, p.1

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• This is common sense. This is nature, and what we're trying to do is defy nature because a certain group of people want to be affirmed by society.

  Rick Santorum

  Gay, People, Trying

  "Q&A:Rick Santorum Discusses Controlling the Debt, Entitlement Reform, Education, Abortion, Same-Sex Marriage, the War on Terror and Immigration". "Online With Terry Jeffrey", www.cnsnews.com. January 24, 2011.

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• I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has a 95 percent and CO2 a 3.6 percent contribution to the 'greenhouse effect.' Carbon dioxide emissions worldwide each year total 3.2 billion tons. That equals about 0.0168 percent of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration of about 19 trillion tons. This results in a 0.00064 percent increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number.

  Michael Myers

  Small Numbers, Years, Water

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• Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

  Ronald Reagan

  Challenges, Conservative, Environment

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• 95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Essentials, Details, Complicated

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• A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Inspiration, Finals

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• I think we can provide common-sense approaches to the issue of illegal guns that are ending up on the streets. We can make sure that criminals don't have guns in their hands. We can make certain that those who are mentally deranged are not getting a hold of handguns. We can trace guns that have been used in crimes to unscrupulous gun dealers that may be selling to straw purchasers and dumping them on the streets.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Gun, Issues

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• Honestly this is not going to change unless the people who want to prevent these kinds of mass shootings from taking place feel at least as passionate, at least as mobilized and well-funded as the NRA and the gun manufacturers are because the politics in Congress are such where even members of Congress who know better are fearful if they vote their conscience and support common sense measures like background checks, they're worried they're going to lose.

  Barack Obama

  Gun, Mass Shootings, People

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• I stand in support of this common sense legislation to license everyone who wishes to purchase a gun...I also believe that every new handgun sale or transfer should be registered in a national registry

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Gun, Support

  "Hillary Clinton on Guns: Not a Big Fan" by Jacob Sullum, reason.com. April 13, 2015.

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• I find a lot of people say, “Oh organic and local’s expensive and I just don’t have time.” And I’m like, well how much TV do you watch? Where are your priorities right now? I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it’s common sense.

  Ellen Page

  People, Priorities, Watches

  "Ellen Page’s Greenest Day". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September 11, 2010.

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• You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but that's only because you're afraid to call it by its real name, and its real name is fear.

  Mick Farren

  Fear, Real, Names

  Mick Farren (2010). “Darklost”, p.154, Macmillan

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