Quotes of: Common-good Keyword

The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of societal morality, in which all collective ethics of humankind must take a cause. This appalling b...

Echoes of Common Sense

Noah: I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I...

The Notebook

Duke: I am no one special. Just a common man with common thoughts. I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but in one respect I've succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I've loved...

The Notebook

Priest: If men don't trust each other, this earth might as well be hell. Commoner: Right. The world's a kind of hell. Priest: No! I don't want to believe that! Commoner: No one will hear you, no matter how loud you shout. Just think. Which one of the...

Rashomon

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Traditional

We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

The Common Reader

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

The evolution revolution is here. Global sense makes common sense.

GLOBAL SENSE

It all came down to money - the great equalizer and common denominator.

The Big Nowhere

On Lincoln: "A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

Abraham Lincoln

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Set Theory and Its Logic

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

Mythologies

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Literary Remains, Vol. 1

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

Samuel Fuller

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

Samuel E. Morison

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

John Wooden

Lost: The common sense of an unconventional dreamer. If found, please return to Love The Stacks.

Love The Stacks Bookstore

My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.

Pauline Hanson

God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.

Saint Ambrose

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.

Harvey Fierstein