Common Man Quotes - Page 5

• it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sex, Men, Mind

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.

  Tom Petty

  Men, Common, Realms

  "Tom Petty: A Portrait Of The Artist". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. November 28, 2005.

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• Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Angel, Men, Saint

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). "Survival", Boston : Little, Brown

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• This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send away for treatises and "be your own doctor" or "emergency treatments" and end up by discovering that they have at least 300 or 400 illnesses, whose symptoms they are experiencing.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Doctors, Attention, Emergencies

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• Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Organization, Decision

  "El camino hacia la servidumbre". Libro de Friedrich Hayek, Cap. 15 : Las perspectivas del orden internacional, 1940 - 1943.

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• By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of which hour forefathers dreamed is betrayed for votes in the name of democracy.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Men, Names, Ideas

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

  Chad Harbach

  Men, Telescopes, Want

  Fuente: www.gq.com

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• En el capitalismo, el hombre común disfruta de comodidades que en épocas pasadas eran desconocidas y, por tanto, inaccesibles incluso para los más ricos.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, People, Age

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.3, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• El hombre superior... no piensa ni a favor ni en contra de nada, persigue lo que es justo. El hombre superior piensa en la virtud, el hombre común en la comodidad.

  Confucius

  Hombres, Pensamiento, Mente

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• Convergence of technology and the judicial system is the need-of-the-hour. We need to go digital and adopt online analysis of legal cases. Dissemination of legal knowledge to the common man will also a go a long way in improving the law and order situation in the country.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Technology, Men

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• Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Artist, Men, Giving

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• Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Giving, Common

  Friedrich Schiller (1860). “The works of Frederick Schiller”, p.196

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• People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.

  Paul Washer

  Men, People, Pedestal

  Fuente: m.blogs.christianpost.com

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• The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly endowed individuals which the creation of this new world presupposed. Still less will he admit the notion that all these facilities still require the support of certain difficult human virtues, the least failure of which would cause the rapid disappearance of the whole magnificent edifice.

  José Ortega y Gasset

  Creer, Hombres, Pensar

  José Ortega Y Gasset (1960). "La rebelión de las masas"

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• I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.

  Booker T. Washington

  Believe, Race, Done

  Booker T. Washington (2012). “Up from Slavery”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• I think every rapper should know how to sing, like a little bit. I mean common man it'll make your rapping better straight up.

  SonReal

  Rap, Mean, Men

  Fuente: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

  Jack Kirby

  Art, Men, Self

  Fuente: www.tcj.com

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• No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

  Ludwig von Mises

  School, Men, Training

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist”, p.187, VM eBooks

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

  Dave Ramsey

  Men, Common, Rich

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• To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body; the mind also must be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny.

  Sala Manly

  Destiny, Men, Intellectual

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• Es bonito que la gente me llame artista y que yo pueda referirme a mí mismo como tal, pero también me separa del hombre común de una manera que no deseo, así que ser artesano me hace sentir un poco más conectado.

  Matana Roberts

  Nice, Artist, Men

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates of recovery from severe mental illness have not improved despite the availability of apparently effective therapies such as antipsychotic drugs.

  Richard Bentall

  War, Recovery, Availability

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Sleep paralysis is something that is actually very common. Many people have it, I've had it myself. And what happens is, when you're in that REM stage of sleep, your brain is very active. You're dreaming your most during that stage, you're mind, your eyes are moving, there's a lot going on. It's like fireworks going on in your brain.

  Shelby Harris

  Dream, Moving, Sleep

  Entrevista en Big Think, bigthink.com.

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

  Kid Rock

  Men, Pay, Common

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• Lakhs of families in the country are deprived of energy connectivity. Fruits of development will not reach the common man until energy connectivity reaches every last household of the country. In the age of globalization, we have no option but to make a quantum leap in energy production and connectivity.

  Narendra Modi

  País, Hombres, Edad

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