Common Quotes

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.

Passion should always trump common sense.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

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

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

In Europe, it's more common to hear aggressive dance tracks on the radio.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

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

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.

I am a boring looking guy with a common face, ugly scars and a toothy smile.

As our world becomes smaller, through a growing common culture, the true test of community will be our tolerance for our most profound differences and love for the most challenging among us.

Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.

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

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

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

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

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

The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.

We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of character

Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

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.

In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.

There's no common taste in this world.

Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

I never allow myself to become discouraged under any circumstances. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work, second, stick-to-ittiveness, third, common sense.

Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

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

The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

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.

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