Common Man Quotes - Page 3

• If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Hero, Men, Determined

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• I definitely try to play a common man in my roles so people can identify with my characters, but the truth of the matter is that it doesn't really matter what I do or my lines are, I'm still Zach Braff, and people know I'm better than them.

  Zach Braff

  Character, Men, Play

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• Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

  Philip Wylie

  Men, Long, Gears

  "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.

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• Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Excellence, Common

  Orison Swett Marden (1896). “Pushing to the Front: Or Success Under Difficulties, a Book of Inspiration and Encouragement to All who are Struggling for Self-elevation Along the Paths of Knowledge and of Duty”

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• Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

  Izaak Walton

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Grateful

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• The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

  P. T. Barnum

  Eye, Men, Wool

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• Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

  James Shirley

  Men, Crowds, Common

  James Shirley, William Gifford, Alexander Dyce (1833). “Honoria and Mammon. Chabot, admiral of France. The Arcadia. The triumph of peace. A contention for honour and riches. The triumph of beauty. Cupid and death. The contention of Ajax and Ulysses for armour of Achilles. Poems”, p.355

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• Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Art, Butterfly, Men

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• Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Moving, Men, Earthquakes

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• I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

  Vince McMahon

  Men, Common, Understand Me

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• The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

  Confucius

  Military, Taken, Men

  Confucius (2015). “The Analects of Confucius”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• ...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.

  Russell Kirk

  Beautiful, Ambition, Men

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.35, Regnery Publishing

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• The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Wind, Common

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.412, Delphi Classics

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• Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man.

  Manmohan Singh

  Men, Growth, Vision

  Manmohan Singh, Smita Vats Sharma, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2005). “Prime Minister Manmohan Singh: June 2005 to May 2006”

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• I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think I was going to create any great masterpieces like Rembrandt or Gauguin. I thought comics was a common form of art, and strictly American in my estimation, because America was the home of the common man - and show me the common man that can't do a comic. So comics is an American form of art that anyone can do with a pencil and paper.

  Jack Kirby

  Art, Home, Men

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• Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Sea, Floating

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.123

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• For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!

  Bartholomew Roberts

  Men, Hands, Water

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• When the bell tolls three times, it will announce that I have been killed. If I am killed by common men, you and your children will rule Russia for centuries to come; if I am killed by one of your stock, you and your family will be killed by the Russian people! Pray Tsar of Russia. Pray.

  Grigori Rasputin

  Children, Men, Russia

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• Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Men, Feet

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• A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Men, Criticism

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• What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, People, Liberty

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• The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Liberty, Quality

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.1, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Men, Leisure

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• If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Trust, Travel, Adventure

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• Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Men, Together

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.515, Da Capo Press

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