Quotes of: Common-good Keyword

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

John Masefield

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Baron d'Holbach

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

Naguib Mahfouz

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

Richard Dawkins

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Katharine Hepburn

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Robertson Davies

Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion.

Amit Kalantri

It's pretty amazing how uncommon common sense is.

Aaron B. Powell

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

Vince McMahon

Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.

Vladimir Putin

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

Jeannette Rankin

When I worked in a second-hand bookshop — so easily pictured, if you don't work in one, as a kind of paradise where charming old gentlemen browse eternally among calf-bound folios — the thing that chiefly struck me was the rarity of really bookis...

Books v. Cigarettes

If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living apart,' Aristotle writes, their association can't really be considered a polis, or political community. 'A polis is not an associa...

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

I have a good Muslim friend who comes over to my house. Good guy; reads the Qur'an in Arabic. He comes over to my house and we talk about faith and we talk about things we have in common, but I can't shy away from the differences that we have. So I t...

Lee Strobel

The mandarins of culture—what do they do to teach the common folk to read? It's no good writing down lists of books for farmers and compiling five-foot shelves; you've got to go out and visit the people yourself—take the books to them, talk to th...

Christopher Moley

Juror #8: Let me ask you this: Do you really think the boy'd shout out a thing like that so the whole neighborhood could hear him? I don't think so - he's much to bright for that. Juror #10: Bright? He's a common ignorant slob. He don't even speak go...

12 Angry Men

America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for Ame...

Ayn Rand

A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.

Chinese