Top 1200 Common Decency Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Nobody had told me I was common.

A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists, and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to be. On basic questions of morality and human decency - issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights - the irreligious tend to be more ethical than their religious peers, particularly compared with those who describe themselves as very religious.

Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

I love playing the common man.

I am not in the roll of common men.

To do something very common, in my own way.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

They had nothing in common but the English language.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.

Christianity is part of the common law.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

Love heightens all senses - except the common.

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.

Common sense is the best prophet.

The best things are the most common.

What we have in common is what keeps us apart.

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

Common aim is stronger than blood.

All things are in common among friends.

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.

Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!

Common sense is genius in homespun.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.

All of science is largely formalized common sense.

I always want to represent the common man.

There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in his name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions…I'm for decency—period. I'm for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday—count me out.

I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.

The West Coast is so different from the common perceptions of it.

Successful investing is all about common sense.

To err from the right path is common to mankind.

I think I do things that are more common in theatre.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

The common denominator is a love of music.

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.

I mean, Common was and is like my favorite rapper.

I think the common man should not be underestimated.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

In standup, you look for a common ground that people have.

You can't create a mass market if you don't have a common standard.

Every writer owes something to a particular tradition he/she grew up in. But no serious writer - other than the militantly nationalist ones - would reduce his/her domain of influence to a single tradition. Furthermore, historical breaks are so common and large in Europe that there are ruptures in every tradition which then connect the same generations across national borders. Younger Eastern European writers, for instance, have more in common with other writers of the same age in Europe, than with the previous, communist-era generations in their own countries.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

The best ideas are common property.

Skills are common. Talent is rare.

The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

I am just a plain, common man.