Top 100 Common People Quotes
#1. The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.
Desiderius Erasmus
#2. Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
George Jean Nathan
#3. I know very well that we are not all equal, nor can be so; but it is my opinion that he who avoids the common people, in order not to lose their respect, is as much to blame as a coward who hides himself from his enemy because he fears defeat. The
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#4. Limitless Leadership is the secret ingredient that helps common people, create high performance teams, that achieve outstanding and uncommon results.
Tony Dovale
#5. God must hate common people, because he made them so common.
Philip Wylie
#6. Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin. They built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes, for it was an age when magic was feared by common people, and witches and wizards suffered much persecution.
J.K. Rowling
#7. The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
George Orwell
#8. Government not just for a few, it belongs to the common people.
Narendra Modi
#9. I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.
Thomas Chalmers
#10. Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.
Criss Jami
#11. Mrs. Rouncewell holds this opinion because she considers that a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost. She regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes, a genteel distinction to which the common people have no claim.
Charles Dickens
#12. God does uncommon things through common people in common places.
Max Lucado
#13. Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason.
John Selden
#14. There is never any lack at Athens of tongues ready and willing to stir up the passions of the common people; this kind of oratory is nurtured by the applause of the mob in all free communities; but this is especially true of Athens, where eloquence has the greatest influence.
Livy
#15. The legal system has been designed to rob the bank accounts of the common people.
Steven Magee
#16. So the cold barracks were spared, lonely as they were, and the armories were unscathed, empty as they were, and the larders went unmolested, depleted as they were, and only the common people burned.
Mike S. Elton
#17. May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Charles Dickens
#18. It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
Michel De Montaigne
#19. To worry before the common people worries; To enjoy only after the people can enjoy.
Fan Zhongyan
#20. Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.
Thomas Jefferson
#21. You know," he said to his mother, "I don't want to belong to the well-to-do middle class. I like my common people best. I belong to the common people." - Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
#22. I think that the best profession or the best thing to do is to be a public servant. I mean there's nothing better than working for the people - for the common people and being a public servant, and I have seen this.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#23. The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.
Adam Smith
#24. God likes to make people. Great people out of common people, strong people out of week people, famous people out of the unknown people, good people are bad people. God likes to make people. That's an obsession with God, one from which He will never change.
Don Baker
#25. Books for general reading always smell badly. The odor of common people hangs about them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.
Confucius
#28. They are done merely for ornament ... the common people regard them as supernatural.
Xunzi
#29. No genuine change in society ever occurs without the mass public getting behind a cause. The good guys in government are counting on enough of us common people waking up and demanding more rights and greater freedoms.
James Morcan
#30. The majority of the common people do not realize how corrupt the legal system has become until that blatant corruption shows up at their own homes.
Steven Magee
#31. Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce.
Michel Foucault
#32. I do this work for the common people and part of that work is creating a general awareness of such problems as they exist because my work is beyond class, religion and creed.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
#33. If I take donations from Big Corporates to fund our election campaign, I'll be accountable to them and would have to do what they tell me to do after winning elections. But if I take donations from common people to fund our Election Campaign, after winning, I'll be accountable to them
Arvind Kejriwal
#34. With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and weapons from those of the common people, made boxing unfashionable.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#35. People aren't interested in the truth, Dafar. They're interested in what keeps them safe. They're interested in being looked after. They're interested in a tale being spun ... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about.
Melina Marchetta
#36. It was so easy to sell anything to the common people, if one could add an element of magic and some religion into it
Anand Neelakantan
#37. The common people don't believe this kind of religion [of islamic fundamentalists] because first and foremost they want to solve their basic problems, including human rights and economic.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
#38. Whoever gives the common people food to eat is a good person whoever lets the common people starve is a bad person.
Hualing Nieh Engle
#39. A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
Andrew O'Hagan
#40. If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere - let them work together to accomplish on a worldwide scale, precisely the kind of democratic association of free people which characterizes the Soviet Union today.
Paul Robeson
#41. Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and all of em' going to die! Which of them has one-tenth of your good points! Or mine! Or anyone else's, as far as that goes - gosh! Everybody excels in some one thing. Some in many!
Tennessee Williams
#42. I want to create awareness amongst the common people of Pakistan and I generally appeal to the Pakistani people living here and abroad for help and they provide me with the necessary resources.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
#43. If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.
Baruch Spinoza
#44. God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.
Florence King
#45. To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface.
Thomas Malthus
#46. He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Roger Ascham
#47. Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
Pat Summitt
#48. Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.
Luc De Clapiers
#49. I believe in nature and humanity and am here to serve the common people of Pakistan. There is a great deal of suffering in this country and I'm here to help.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
#50. Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.
Thomas Jefferson
#51. Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn
Robert Henri
#52. It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.
Vilfredo Pareto
#53. What common people call beauty is essentially nature. The moment nature abandons you, your beauty is lost forever.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#54. Blessed are the common people. God loves them; that is why he made millions of them.
Nnamdi Azikiwe
#55. I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people
Che Guevara
#56. Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
James Howell
#57. The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.
Stefan Zweig
#58. The basic problem affecting the Pakistan today is human rights. Islamic fundamentalists have no roots among the common people and while they are pushing hard for religious fundamentalists to take hold, the common people still seek change through humanitarian and common human rights law.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
#59. Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.
Francis Bacon
#60. Democracy is a wonderful thing, Mr Burnham,' he said wistfully. 'It is a marvellous tamasha that keeps the common people busy so that men like ourselves can take care of all matters of importance. I hope one day India will also be able to enjoy these advantages - and China too, of course.
Amitav Ghosh
#61. While police officers who blatantly shaft the common people believe that they are God, they are the Devil to those that they wrong.
Steven Magee
#62. But the Butlerians turn fear into violence and panic into a weapon. By creating imaginary problems and raising the specter of nonexistent enemies, they transform common people into a wild herd that destroys everything they do not understand.
Brian Herbert
#64. Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.
Steve Wozniak
#65. All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed
Pat Cash
#66. Yes, they think we're dumb. They call us the "common people." But I've been sitting here listening and looking and trying to understand what's so common about us. I think they're guilty of a gross mis-statement of fact-we are the uncommon people-
Ralph Ellison
#67. People have seen too many common people like them, and they are bored by it. They need heroes.
Amit Kalantri
#68. Because you forgot that the path to knowledge is a path that's open to everyone, to the common people.
Paulo Coelho
#69. The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an "elite" class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.
Bill Watterson
#70. But the workingpeople, the common people, they won't allow it.' 'It's the common people who get most fun out of the torture and execution of great men ... If it's not going too far back I'd like to know who it was demanded the execution of our friend Jesus H. Christ.
John Dos Passos
#71. What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.
Muhammad Yunus
#72. The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars; but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others.
John Calvin
#73. May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary endeavors of common people, and may they make their way to the eyes of the weary - light to the dark, fire to the chill.
Jan Phillips
#74. Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.
Will Rogers
#75. The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
Bertolt Brecht
#76. How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#77. The most powerful men of the kingdom have dragged a duchess down and sent her out to be a marvel to the common people of London. They are so deeply afraid of her that they took the risk to dishonor their own. They are so anxious to save themselves that they thought they should throw her aside.
Philippa Gregory
#78. Corporate controlled governments protect the interests of the corporations and not the common people.
Steven Magee
#79. Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.
George MacDonald
#80. Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
Francis Bacon
#81. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise? This was printed with music as early as 1624, in East's Sixth Set of Books, and is found in many manuscripts.
Henry Wotton
#82. The common people only see weakness where there is greatness of spirit.
Philippa Gregory
#83. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If
Oscar Wilde
#84. Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#85. You know Lincoln's famous remark about "God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them?" Well, you are not going to get people's votes nowadays by calling 'em common. Lincoln might have said it, but I bet it was not until after he was elected.
Will Rogers
#86. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
Seneca.
#87. The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
Horace
#88. But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-'
'Are all very well for common people.
H.G.Wells
#89. You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent.
Woody Allen
#90. We have to fight terror in one voice, rising above politics. That is when the common people will feel secure.
Narendra Modi
#91. History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.
Mildred Cable
#92. To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Aristotle.
#93. The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people
life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.
D.H. Lawrence
#94. Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
#95. I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
Oscar Wilde
#96. Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.
Cesare Pavese
#98. To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
Roger Ascham
#99. The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.
Winston Churchill
#100. The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.
Roger L'Estrange
