Common People Quotes

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
― Seneca

“Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it’s only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean. Because the numinous is everywhere, we need to be reminded of it. We live among wonders. Superhuman cyborgs, we plug into cell phones connecting us to one another and to a constantly updated planetary database, an exo-memory that allows us to fit our complete cultural archive into a jacket pocket. We have camera eyes that speed up, slow down, and even reverse the flow of time, allowing us to see what no one prior to the twentieth century had ever seen — the thermodynamic miracle of broken shards and a puddle gathering themselves up from the floor to assemble a half-full wineglass. We are the hands and eyes and ears, the sensitive probing feelers through which the emergent, intelligent universe comes to know its own form and purpose. We bring the thunderbolt of meaning and significance to unconscious matter, blank paper, the night sky. We are already divine magicians, already supergods. Why shouldn’t we use all our brilliance to leap in as many single bounds as it takes to a world beyond ours, threatened by overpopulation, mass species extinction, environmental degradation, hunger, and exploitation? Superman and his pals would figure a way out of any stupid cul-de-sac we could find ourselves in — and we made Superman, after all.”
― Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

“Elites are always indifferent and unconcerned to the plight of common people.”
― Jeffrey Fry, Distilled Thoughts

“I'm physically nauseated by commonplace humanity, which is the only kind there is.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Democracy is not doing what I want. It's also letting others do what I want.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“The support came from all sides. We had to give in.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“You don't have to believe in Gods of democracy. Vote them in!”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Protected by plate armor and the pride of chivalry, the noble felt himself invulnerable and invincible and became increasingly contemptuous of the foot soldier. He believed that commoners, being excluded from chivalry, could never be relied upon in war. As grooms, baggage attendants, foragers, and road-builders—the equivalent of engineer corps—they were necessary, but as soldiers in leather jerkins armed with pikes and billhooks, they were considered an encumbrance who in a sharp fight would “melt away like snow in sunshine.” This was not simple snobbism but a reflection of experience in the absence of training. The Middle Ages had no equivalent of the Roman legion. Towns maintained trained bands of municipal police, but they tended to fill up their contingents for national defense with riff-raff good for nothing else. Abbeys had better use for their peasants than to employ their time in military drill. In any epoch the difference between a rabble and an army is training, which was not bestowed on foot soldiers called up by the arrière-ban. Despised as ineffective, they were ineffective because they were despised.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“Why should I believe you, a common-born woman, over the son of a margrave?"
Hathui smiled wryly. "God makes the sun to rise on noblewoman and commoner alike. The Lord and Lady love us all equally in Their hearts, my lady."
"Yet Our Lord and Lady follow Their own will in parceling out to individuals whatever They wish. To some They give more, and to others, less. Could we not also argue that we merit what we each receive? That They confer on the elect these gifts of grace that set them apart from others?"
But the Eagle shrugged, her expression untroubled. "All gifts are given to us by God. Without such gifts, no matter how noble, we are dust. So we are all equal before God - and the honorable word of a common-born woman no different than that of a nobly born man.”
― Kate Elliott, Prince of Dogs

“Too much isolation can be a danger to you and your health. It is a hazard to the common people, as well as a benefit to those who know how to use their free time.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“There have always been wars.The peacemakers have to make a living out of something.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Health has no price. The doctor has.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Real politics starts with common people.”
― Shesh Nath Vernwal

“I can not vote for the best candidate. I am not on the list.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“A sheep's idea of bravery : to become a wolf's pet.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“We are addicted to adrenaline sports. A struggle for bare survival.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Everything is clear to us, that's why it got dark.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“We are lost. All roads lead to politicians”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Even if trees stand on the ground dead starts from the head – like that, the country starts deteriorating because of the government’s mismanagement – not for the common people.”
“মাটিতে গাছ মরে দাঁড়ালেও মাথা থেকে শুরু হয়- সেইরূপ, সরকারের অব্যবস্থাপনার কারণে দেশর অবনতি হয় – সাধারণ মানুষের জন্য নয়।”
― Mozammel Khan

“To riot or not to riot, that is the question.”
― Steven Magee

“It is true that the common people are illiterate; they may not be able to govern the country. But at the same time, is it not a fact that left to themselves, even the most ignorant peasants can manage their affairs better than our present government? The distrust for the ability of the common people to think for themselves and take care of themselves is only a pretext for seizing power in their name and abusing that power to suppress their liberty.”
― M N Roy

“Originally, the people who learned karate were members of Okinawa's noble class, and for the most part, common people were excluded from karate training.”
― Mark I. Cramer, The History of Karate and the Masters Who Made It: Development, Lineages, and Philosophies of Traditional Okinawan and Japanese Karate-do

“The true failure of philosophy wasn't in its inability to find answers, but in its decision to stop asking questions relevant to the common person, choosing instead to debate angels on pinheads while the world burned.”
― Unknown Author

“Everything is clear to us—that’s why it all seems so dark.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“We would leave the past behind… but we have no future.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Fortune follows the brave; misfortune eavesdrops.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“The greatest activist is the conscientious commoner.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“There is no greater environmental stabilizer than commoners jolted to duty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“That's what powerful men did. Stayed quiet. Held secrets. Ran things from inside a tight protective circle, making perilous decisions only they were savvy enough to make, leaving normal morality to the mere earthlings, who lived and ate and died dully down below, never knowing the extent to which they were being shielded by a beneficent distant pulling of strings.”
― George Saunders, Vigil