Common Quotes - page 3

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. (Andrea Dworkin)
Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. View quote
James Baldwin
I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding." View quote
John Searle
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. View quote
Harlan Ellison
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike. View quote
Thomas Browne
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason. View quote
Edward Coke
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. View quote
William Beveridge
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. View quote
Herbert Hoover
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still. View quote
Thales
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. (Vladimir Nabokov)
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. View quote
John Steinbeck
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. View quote
Plutarch
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. View quote
Douglas Adams
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. View quote
Salman Rushdie
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Absence - that common cure of love. View quote
Lord Byron
Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. View quote
Hillary Clinton
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. (Matthew Henry)
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others. View quote
Pliny the Elder
But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it. View quote
Claire Danes