Top 1200 Common Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.

Indian polity has failed to provide solutions to the common man's problems.

At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.

Every culture, or subculture, is defined by a set of common values, that is, generally agreed upon preferences. Without a core of common values a culture cannot exist, and we classify society into cultures and subcultures precisely because it is possible to identify groups who have common values.

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.

I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

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

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

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.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

There is so much corruption on so many levels of democracy that the common man is deprived of the basic rights.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

As you know, in this democracy, in order to have a healthy democracy, we have to get to the common good. But the only way to get to the common good is if we have a common set of facts, which we don't seem to have today, and we have a common level of decency. And my problem with the president and what happened today and why I think it affects the country as a whole is, first, we bring up our kids better than this. We teach them not to do this. We tell them not to do this, and it is not the right standard of behavior.

What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.

If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.

The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is true that capitalism does -- if that catch-phrase has any meaning -- but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice

You can go through comic strips alone and study the common man. You can trace our history.

Any common man can relate to the story that 'Ye Hai Mohabbatein' has.

Those who respect the intelligence of the common man have always been masters.

In a democracy, voting is a huge and most important right of a common man.

Web publishing can create common spaces; it all depends on how we, the readers and sometimes the producers, react to technological change. If we sort ourselves into narrow groups, common spaces will be in big trouble. But there's no reason not to have common spaces on the Internet. There are lots of them out there.

Tomorrow you may bring about the destruction of your world. Tomorrow you may sing in Paradise above the smoking ruins of your world-cities. But tonight I would like to think of one man, a lone individual, a man without name or country, a man whom I respect because he has absolutely nothing in common with you - MYSELF. Tonight I shall meditate upon that which I am.

The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.

As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.

I talked on my blog recently about "uncommon sense." Common sense is called "common" because it reflects cultural consensus. It's common sense to get a good job and save for retirement. But I think we all also have an "uncommon sense," an individual voice that tells us what we're meant to do.

We need a president that can heal, that can bring people together, that can get us back. We have so much common pain in this country that can get us back to a sense of common purpose and common cause.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

At the end of the day, the law is the same for the Prime Minister or a common man of India.

The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.

No man can control Wall Street. Wall Street is like the ocean. No man can govern it. It is too vast. Wall Street is full of eddies and currents. The thing to do is to watch them, to exercise a little common sense, and … to come out on top.

A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.

Even when candidates have degrees from Harvard and Yale, they try to run as the candidate of the common man.

We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred.

In times of uncertainty there is a special breed of warrior ready to answer our Nation’s call; a common man with uncommon desire to succeed. Forged by adversity, he stands alongside America’s finest special operations forces to serve his country and the American people, and to protect their way of life. I am that man.

Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, 'What are the facts in this case?' he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause.

Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into common circulation. 'Common sense' is the folklore of philosophy and always stands midway between folklore proper (folklore as it is normally understood) and the philosophy, science, and economics of the scientists. Common sense creates the folklore of the future, a relatively rigidified phase of popular knowledge in a given time and place.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.

The narrative related to economics is, I think, very well understood even by the common man.

I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them.

A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.

There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish.

Post-Christian man is not the same as Pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as virgin is from widow: there is nothing in common except want of a spouse: but there is a great difference between a spouse-to-be and a spouse lost.

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.