Famous Quotes - Tags - Common People

  • A nation’s domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards... More
  • Art thou officer,
    Or art thou base, common, and popular? More
  • As to what we call the masses, and common men;Mthere are no common men. All men are at last of a... More
  • Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a... More
  • But the strong and healthy yeoman and husbands of the land, the self-sustaining class of... More
  • Cinna. I am not Cinna the conspirator.
    Fourth Plebian. It is no matter, his name’s Cinna!... More
  • Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? Every... More
  • Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, “he was a blockhead ....” BOSWELL. “Will you... More
  • I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we... More
  • I will not choose what many men desire,
    Because I will not jump with common spirits,
    And... More
  • It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time... More
  • I’ll be all around in the dark. I’ll be everywhere, wherever you can look. Wherever there’s... More
  • Just remember, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you’re talking about, they do most of the working... More
  • Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a... More
  • Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be... More
  • Masses! the calamity is the masses. More
  • Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. More
  • The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale, yet he is saturated with... More
  • The difference between people isn’t in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle... More
  • The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine. More
  • The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer’s boy, stand nearer to the light by... More
  • The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common... More
  • The literature of the poor, the feelings of the child, the philosophy of the street, the meaning... More
  • The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee. More
  • The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you.... More
  • The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the... More
  • To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply... More
  • We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us... More
  • When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions... More
  • “Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.”
    What many men desire! That many may be... More

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