Common Man Quotes - Page 7

• Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' - and that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.

  Hannah Arendt

  Unique, Men, Differences

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• One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded....Naturally, therefore, common men hate a new idea, and are disposed more or less to ill-treat the original man who brings it.

  Walter Bagehot

  Pain, Hate, Men

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• I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York to happen, because there was a culture developed there around the ideas of civil rights, around the idea of democracy growing out of Emerson and Thoreau, these ideas of the fanfare for the common man.

  T Bone Burnett

  New York, Men, Thinking

  "T Bone Burnett on the Making of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'". Interview with Hilary Hughes, www.esquire.com. November 20, 2013.

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• When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.

  Neil Young

  Hurt, Men, Speaks Out

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• I work for the suffering of the common man, something I am very proud of and will continue to do.

  Abdul Sattar Edhi

  Men, Suffering, Proud

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

  Ang Lee

  Writing, Men, Views

  Interview with Karan Johar, www.hindustantimes.com. November 4, 2012.

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• I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)”, p.1, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Two, Wicked

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3417, e-artnow

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• Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to witness a revolting display. What happened to the public censors who protected the majority of citizenry from moral decadence? Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? Did freedom mean anyone could do anything they wanted anytime they wanted, without consequences?

  Francine Rivers

  Mean, Men, Rights

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• Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

  Ramakrishna

  Wise, Men, Littles

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• When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds have begun their slow, fat rolling journey across the sky, no land in the world can inspire such love in a common man.

  Frank Delaney

  Morning, Distance, Sleep

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• Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by the common man in centuries, he had all about him the ruin of language, evidence of toppled suburbs, grass growing among the mosaics, and voices that had been choked with poison, iron, age, or ash.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Reading, Men, Voice

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• . . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Iron, Gold

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

  Greg Graffin

  Men, Common, Punk

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• The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.

  David A. Bednar

  Men, Common, Ancient

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• The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

  Confucius

  Motivation, Army, Men

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Heart, Men, Rights

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.518, Best Books on

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• Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, New York, Hero

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• The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Hero, Men

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.113, Open Road Media

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• I didn't become CM on 07-10-2001. I have always been CM, I am CM today and shall be CM forever. For me CM means not Chief Minister but Common Man.

  Narendra Modi

  Mean, Men, Forever

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• Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.

  Arvind Kejriwal

  Men, People, Politics

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• We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

  Herbert Hoover

  Mean, Men, Modern Life

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”, C. Scribner's sons

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• My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

  Kailash Kher

  Inspiration, Men, Common

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• No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.

  Peter Drucker

  Strength, Men, Organization

  "Management".

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• I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

  Angus Wilson

  Men, Common, Should

  Angus Wilson (2012). “No Laughing Matter”, p.422, Faber & Faber

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