Common Quotes - Page 15

Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er.

A common misperception of me is that I am a victim. I am not a victim. I am just honest about how things affect me.

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

Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.

Most asylum seekers do get permanent visas, so the earlier they receive the appropriate help, the faster they will become part of the community. They'll get jobs and start paying taxes too. They will see Australia as a nation with a sense of care and concern. That's so important for a cohesive society. It helps build a sense of belonging. And in terms of common decency, it's what should be happening... For God's sake, this is Australia, people should be treated with decency and humanity.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.

But I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ, 'Go into all the world and preach.' He who said 'preach,' said also, 'Go ye into and preach,' and what Christ hath joined together let not man put asunder.

Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

Common aim is stronger than blood.

It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?

It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.