Top 1200 Common Struggle Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks release, and for the creative it can take the form of art.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

Every struggle, whether won or lost, strengthens us for the next to come. It is not good for people to have an easy life. They become weak and inefficient when they cease to struggle. Some need a series of defeats before developing the strength and courage to win a victory.

Dare I speak ,to oppressed and opressor in the same voice? Dare I speak to you in a language that will move beyond the boundaries of domination- a language, that will not bind you, fence you in, or hold you? Language is also a place of struggle. The oppressed struggle in language to recover ourselves, to reconcile, to reunite, to renew. Our words are not without meaning, they are an action, a resistance. Language is also a place of struggle.

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people.

The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

If I could leave this body with one wish, it would be that we never give up that search for common ground, .. The politics of common ground will not be found on the far right, or on the far left. That is not where most Americans live. We will only find it on the firm middle ground, based on common sense and shared values.

Dubai was brilliant, they looked around the world. They saw Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Sydney, London all ran British common law. British common law is much better for commerce than is French common law or sharia law. So they took 110 acres of Dubai soil, put British common law with a British judge in charge, and they went from an empty piece of soil to the 16th most powerful financial center in [the] world in eight years.

What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

It's very common business for players and management to go back and forth and try to find common ground.

I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing.

For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

God does uncommon things through common people in common places.

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.

A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors

Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense

Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.

Hip-hop has always been speaking about the way your brain is manipulated by stress and struggle because hip-hop is borne from struggle.

People finally understood that the role of the social-democratic party rests on its conscious leadership of the mass struggle against the existing society, a struggle that must reckon with the vital, necessary conditions of capitalist society.

Hang out with those who have a common FUTURE with you; not a common past.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

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.

In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming into the slightest conflict with his religious convictions. The mighty common struggle which both carried on against the destroyer of Aryan humanity had, on the contrary, taught them mutually to respect and esteem one another.

As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death!

And my voice now is a struggle, it's a daily struggle to keep it up. Gravity has begun to fight the vocal cords the way it does with everybody. So I have a vocal therapist, and we record the sessions and I use them on tour every day.

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!

Sometimes there is a common threat that can produce a common interest in putting aside all the differences in trying to find a constructive solution.

I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.

Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues.

I am still where I started. I am still struggling. In fact, the struggle has only got bigger. I always try to go beyond my means, and this where the struggle comes in.

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

Go get yourself stressed all the time and the common cold becomes more common.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

I think each veteran's soul has something that it needs to say. I know from my own personal traumas, it's very hard to know what that is. But when I'm watching someone else struggle, it's not as confusing for me, 'cause it's not my struggle, so I can help identify that.

There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle.

We need to move forward, from the common currency to the banking union to a common financial policy and, in the middle-term, to a common foreign and security policy. That will take time, because we need to figure out how to deal with those countries that don't always want a more tightly integrated European Union.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship... United with his fellow men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom, the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of love.

God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.

The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.