Common Quotes
Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good. It is vain to exclaim against the depravity of human nature on this account; the fact is so, the experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure, change the constitution of man, before we can make it otherwise. No institution, not built on the presumptive truth of these maxims can succeed.
How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.'
Africa's rock art is the common heritage of all Africans, but it is more than that. It is the common heritage of humanity.
The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.' It's a very common thing.
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.
He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation ... Man is the co-descendant with other mammals of a common progenitor.
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen
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