Common Man Quotes - Page 4

• This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Age, Titles

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• If we reject science, we reject the common man.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Men, Common, Rejects

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• Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in which he acquires them, he may feel happier than he did before. But as soon as some of his wishes are satisfied, new wishes spring up. Such is human nature.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Spring, Men, People

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• All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.

  Raymond Chandler

  Men, Looks, Speech

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.20, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Literature, Common

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.112, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

  Herb Brooks

  Monday, Morning, Men

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• …Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire; Who fear the blessing of God, the loneliness of the night of God, the surrender required, the deprivation inflicted; Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God; Who fear the hand at the window, the fire in the thatch, the fist in the tavern, the push into the canal, Less than we fear the love of God.

  T. S. Eliot

  Loneliness, Blessing, Night

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.

  Daniel Boone

  Taken, Adventure, Men

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• The common man or women, whether they are Israeli or Palestinian, Protestant or Catholic or Iraqi or American, the common man just wants to live in peace and justice in a clean environment. When we look around the world and we see that is not the case, we know the will of the majority is not being listened to, that's the first sign that our system is broken.

  Woody Harrelson

  Men, Broken, Justice

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• It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.

  Nancy Astor

  Inspirational, Success, Men

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• Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

  Hafez

  Greatness, Men, Acting

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• Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

  Paul Robeson

  Freedom, Struggle, Heart

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• Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow. Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.

  George Jones

  Country, Real, Simple

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• The governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of paper upon which the treasury or agencies which it controls have printed the magical words legal tender.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Agency, Looks

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• Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of plenty upon the common man. It has raised the average standard of living to a height never dreamed of in earlier ages. It has made accessible to millions of people enjoyments which a few generations ago were only within the reach of a small élite.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Average, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.49, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

  Gilbert Murray

  Men, Liberty, World

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• I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

  James A. Michener

  Religious, Men, Atheism

  James A. Michener (2014). “The World Is My Home: A Memoir”, p.283, Dial Press

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• Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Believe, Men, People

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• I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.

  A. R. Rahman

  Believe, Men, Soul

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• Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no trouble in accounting for the universe. He can tell you the origin and destiny of man and the why and wherefore of things.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Destiny, Men, Ignorant

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.747, Library of Alexandria

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• If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men believe in the lies of religion since they cannot do without them, and let then a handful of sages, who know the truth and can live with it, keep it among themselves. Men are then divided into the wise and the foolish, the philosophers and the common men, and atheism becomes a guarded, esoteric doctrine - for if the illusions of religion were to be discredited, there is no telling with what madness men would be seized, with what uncontrollable anguish.

  Irving Kristol

  Wise, Lying, Believe

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• America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.

  Eric Hoffer

  Country, Men, White

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• The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-“happiness.” He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.

  Oswald Spengler

  Eye, Men, Suffering

  Oswald Spengler (1967). “Aphorisms”

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• What the common man cannot understand he hates.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Hate, Men, Common

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.145, Open Road Media

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• Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.

  Tony Fernandes

  Men, Goal, Aviation

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