Common Quotes - Page 7

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

With all the classes they offer at school, how come they don't have one for common sense?

Passion should always trump common sense.

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.

If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.

The purpose of the gospel is to transform common creatures into celestial citizens, and that requires change.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.

Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be reshaped by fiddling with their parts. They shape our lives far more than we realize—they are so strong, in fact, that they cause our brains to cling to them at the exclusion of all else, including common sense.

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge

There's no common taste in this world.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not apart.

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.

It is only common sense to recognize that the great bulk of Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, face many common problems and agree on a number of basic objectives.

Happiness and bacteria have one thing in common; they multiply by dividing!

More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which is ridiculous. I haven't done anything yet, and I think it's just common sense to send me to Washington and make me do my share.

You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.