Common Sense Quotes - Page 27

• Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

  Ernest Bevin

  Humanity, Affair, Bigs

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• The heresy of heresies was common sense.

  George Orwell

  Common, Heresy

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.64, Arcturus Publishing

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• Any Hamas or Zionist type who tries to interfere with the labor unions and grab the money will be marched to the guillotines and subsequently beheaded. And isn't that easier and more productive than some endless, bloody conflict? So sayeth the gospel of common sense. Happy Mother's Day.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mother, Trying, Unions

  "12 Crazy Things Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr Has Said About The United States" by Jordan Teicher, www.businessinsider.com. February 3, 2012.

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• As we have seen after every other [Donald] Trump controversy, this one only increased their enthusiasm for him. His supporters thought the idea of a temporary halt in Muslims coming to the U.S. was a common sense proposal in a time of great fear about terrorism.

  Steve Inskeep

  Ideas, Enthusiasm, Terrorism

  Source: www.npr.org

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• With all the classes they offer at school, how come they don't have one for common sense?

  Gabriel Iglesias

  School, Class, Offers

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• Common sense dictates the term hot fudge sundae has a totally different meaning in prison.

  Dana Gould

  Hot, Different, Fudge

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• The gun legislation was doomed the minute it became associated with the words common sense.

  Dana Gould

  Gun, Legislation, Minutes

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• Are we to have a church in which everyone's judgment is equal to everyone else's? That's not a church, it's chaos. Common sense dictates that you keep the fox out of the chicken coop.

  John Joseph O'Connor

  Church, Foxes, Chaos

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• Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

  Josephine Tey

  Common

  Josephine Tey (2012). “To Love and Be Wise”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say. As nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing, so nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own...feel yourself, and be not daunted by things...The light by which we see this world comes out from the soul of the observer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Men, Light

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• Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.

  Eartha Kitt

  Done, Moderation, Should

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• If we want the freedom to take part in our bit of differentness, then we must allow others their rights to take part in theirs, as long as they do not harm the person or property of a non-consenting other, of course. IT'S JUST common sense. It's also constitutional and it forms the cornerstone of the American ideal: free individual expression, tolerance and compassion.

  Peter McWilliams

  Compassion, Rights, Expression

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• I am deeply saddened by the loss of my children`s grandfather and my very dear friend. I loved big John with all my heart. ... Johnny Cash will, like Will Rogers, stand forever as a symbol of intelligence, creativity, compassion and common sense.

  Rodney Crowell

  Children, Heart, Creativity

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• Common sense dictates that a trace gas needed for life on the planet would not be the cause for destroying life on the planet. Common sense dictates that what has happened before without man can happen again with man. Common sense would dictate that you not believe me, or any one else, but go look for YOURSELF.

  Joe Bastardi

  Believe, Men, Looks

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• If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church, your pastor, your parents, common sense, tradition, everything. You would have been against everything.

  Bill Ayers

  Law, White, Parent

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• I hate sports the way people who like sports hate common sense.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sports, Hate, People

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• Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Believe, Men

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• It's naive and even irresponsible for a grownup today to get her or his information about foreign policy and war and peace exclusively from the administration in power. It's essential to have other sources of information, to check those against one's own common sense, and to form your own judgment as to whether we ought to go to or persist in war.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  War, Information, Today

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• I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun...In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Passion, Long, Giving

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• The problem with common sense is, it isn't.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Common, Problem

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• Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuition.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Powerful, Views, Intuition

  Stephen Jay Gould (1992). “Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History”, p.91, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.

  Raymond Chandler

  Years, Fifty, Fancy

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• Basically, if you have above-average intelligence, you have common sense and you can speak in front of a camera and to a crowd, you can govern the state.

  Jerry Brown

  Average, Cameras, Crowds

  "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2003.

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• But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Knowing, Soul, Feelings

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.469, e-artnow

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• We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Errors, Rights

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.55, American Foundation for the Blind

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