What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.
We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
The common person fears to think beyond the common.
Christianity is part of the common law.
Most people have sense but not common sense.
Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.
Taste is the common sense of genius.
Have common sense and stick to the point.
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
…the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?
Both noble and common blood are the same color.
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man think...
The “layman” need never think of his humbler task as being inferior to that of his minister. Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determ...
Where will it all end? In the destruction of all other command for the benefit of one alone - that of the state. In each man's absolute freedom from every family and social authority, a freedom the price of which is complete submission to the state. ...
There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
