Top 100 Quotes About The Common Man
#1. It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it also kind of separates me from the common man in a way that I don't wish to be, so craftsperson makes me feel a bit more connected.
Matana Roberts
#2. When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Herbert Hoover
#3. 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
#4. Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man; but it is the enemy of greatness
Garrison Wynn
#5. 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
#6. What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.
Ludwig Von Mises
#7. The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
George Santayana
#8. Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'
Bertrand Russell
#9. The superior man ... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.
Confucius
#10. The American Dream is a constant reminder that America's true nature and distinctive grandeur is in promising the common man, thr man on the make, a better chance to succeed here than common men enjoy anywhere else on earth.
Pursuing the American Dream, 9, 269
Calvin C. Jillson
#11. 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
#12. Readers tend to like a character who is at least superficially like themselves. But they quickly lose interest unless this particular character is somehow out of the ordinary. The character may wear the mask of the common man, but underneath his true face must always be the face of the hero.
Orson Scott Card
#13. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
Henry A. Wallace
#14. People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.
Arlo Guthrie
#15. The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#16. The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.
Y. C. James Yen
#17. All developmental activities for the common man such as education, healthcare, shelter and food distribution should be handled by reputed private sector institutions. It should be a competitive market in order to prevent the formation of monopolies.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#18. I confess my belief in the common man ... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it ... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.
Woodrow Wilson
#19. Convergence of technology and the judicial system is the need-of-the-hour. We need to go digital and adopt online analysis of legal cases. Dissemination of legal knowledge to the common man will also a go a long way in improving the law and order situation in the country.
Narendra Modi
#21. I had hoped to be disliked by most, not by way of rebellion, but by way of excellence, disdain for the habitual, and the common man's inability to grasp this. The act of being scorned? I saw it as a victory, my irreverent boast against this world which could never fully quench me.
Coco J. Ginger
#22. I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.
Greg Graffin
#23. I un-gritted my teeth to speak. "I need no more proof of tyranny.""Our only desire is the wellbeing of the common man.""I am not a man.
Rod Duncan
#24. The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#25. There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.
Ernest Bevin
#26. The two most potent post-war orthodoxies
socialist politics and modernist art
have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.
Roger Scruton
#27. If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game ... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.
Stanley Rous
#28. Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.
Mark Twain
#29. (Another writer once asked me why I wrote about "nebbishes." I told him I wanted to write about "the common man.") Sometimes I even
Peter Straub
#30. My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
Narendra Modi
#31. The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
Henry A. Wallace
#32. You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.
Chad Harbach
#33. How shall we embrace the common man: give us a reason without a doubt?
Is Everyman fated as an island unto himself 'til his last bright day goes by?
David B. Lentz
#34. You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon
Herb Brooks
#35. I work for the suffering of the common man, something I am very proud of and will continue to do.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
#36. (a statement someone makes to Maisie regarding attitudes prior to WWII):
"...the corridors of power are littered with Fascist leanings; anything to save the upper classes through disenfranchisement of the common man while allowing the common man to think you're on his side.
Jacqueline Winspear
#37. A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man.
Ludwig Von Mises
#38. Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened and subdued.
Evan Meekins
#39. The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
Ludwig Von Mises
#40. 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
#41. The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. We will preserve the right to counsel for the common man in this age of oligarchic anarchy.
Kenneth Eade
#43. The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.
E. Digby Baltzell
#44. 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
#45. The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.
Baba Amte
#46. The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius
#47. 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
#48. The illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.
Evan Meekins
#49. What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted
Lin Yutang
#50. It is not the opinion of the common man that matters, but the opinion of men for whom you admire and truly respect.
Bohdi Sanders
#51. We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
Herbert Hoover
#52. My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.
Madhur Bhandarkar
#53. 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
#54. Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.
Tony Fernandes
#55. The minutiae of the common man is the grease that slicks the gears of civilization. She
Brian McClellan
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.
Nancy Astor
#60. I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.
Eugene Levy
#61. The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.
Bruce Lee
#62. The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
Kailash Kher
#63. I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!.
Anne Frank
#64. The governments and their policies have failed, the church is the last hope of the common man, I value a church that is a home for all.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#65. The common man cannot see things objectively because his mind is clouded by anxiety about achieving his goals. Seeing clearly means not projecting our goals into the world.
John Gray
#66. Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man,
Manmohan Singh
#67. I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.
Angus Wilson
#68. We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#69. If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#70. I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?
Simon Raven
#71. I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.
Jack Kirby
#72. The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
Norman Angell
#73. But caffeine, cigarettes and cholesterol, the grim reapers of the common man - God forbid I should give them up.
Patricia Cornwell
#74. We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
Oskar Schindler
#75. The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.
Criss Jami
#76. The common man knows exactly what he wants ... and deserves to get it good and hard.
H.L. Mencken
#77. The strength of the nation lies in the well-being of the common man.
Diosdado Macapagal
#78. Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average.
Tony Dungy
#79. In a pre-scientific society the best the common man can do is pin his faith on a leader and give him his support, trusting in his benevolence against the misuse of the delegated power and in his wisdom to govern justly and make war successfully.
B.F. Skinner
#80. The answer to growing complexity in the social sphere is renewed efforts at participation by each one of us, or else a progressive decline of inert and unquestioning masses submitting to government by an elite which will have little regard for the ultimate interest of the common man.
Gordon W. Allport
#81. What the common man cannot understand he hates.
Pearl S. Buck
#83. 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
#84. The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.
Tom Petty
#85. Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.
Arvind Kejriwal
#86. Impulsive enjoyment of life, which leads away both from work in a calling and from religion, was as such the enemy of rational asceticism, whether in the form of seigneurial sports, or the enjoyment of the dance-hall or the public - house of the common man.
Max Weber
#87. Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#88. To eliminate her from Scripture is to deform the story - to not tell it correctly - and actually dishonors Jesus. Consider how much the common man honors his own mother. How much more so does a perfect Man honor His perfect mother?
Carrie Gress
#89. And most of the times, the rebellions were not led by farsighted men who thought they would create a better way of life for the common man. They were led by men discontented with their lot in life.
Amish Tripathi
#90. It makes logical sense that 168 is a greater number than 17, so why would you shelve 168 first? Because a librarian is always right. To the common man, this looks wrong, but to the librarian, this is right, because a librarian is never wrong.
Scott Douglas
#91. This country [the Philippines] is like a pyramid, like a tower. It is made up of millions of stones ... And the foundation stone of this pyramid is the common man.
Ramon Magsaysay
#92. King Arthur is treated like George Washington often is - as a hero who is so noble and so far above the common man that he seems more like a stuffed owl than a real person.
Joan Wolf
#93. My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.
Kailash Kher
#94. God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
#95. For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.
C.V. Wedgwood
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
Vince McMahon
#99. Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic.
Stanley Hauerwas
#100. Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people.
Cal Stoll
