Common Quotes - Page 3

I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.

Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.

For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can. I shall not speak much for fear of saying foolish things; I will risk still less for fear of doing them, for I am not disposed to abuse the confidence which they have deigned to show me. Such is the conduct which until now I have followed and will follow.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

Common sense is very uncommon.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.

That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property of society as a whole. It is only the surplus that is private property and can be safely left to individual commercial enterprise.

How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

This is the one international institution we have in which governments get together to work collectively for a common purpose. International crises, by definition, require international solutions. Peacekeeping is a response to conflict, is a response to situations in which often it is not the business of any one particular country to get into. It seems to me, therefore, that the world will for the foreseeable future need peacekeeping.