Quotes about Common
I've twice run against women opponents, and it's a very different kind of approach. For those of us who have some chivalry left, there's a level of respect... You treat some things as a special treasure; you treat other things as common.
- Mike Huckabee
Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.
- Phillips Brooks
A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all, but a man of more than average moral instincts, who if he knows anything, knows how little he knows.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?
- Donald Justice
The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.
- St Bonaventure
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.
- Mark Twain
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
The most common and naive response in the Western world is to ignore the battle or
- Neil Anderson
The real threat to society is darkness. Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.
- Victor Hugo
The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.
- Victor Hugo
Common right is nought but the protection of all radiating over the right of each. This protection of all is termed Fraternity. The point of intersection of all these aggregated sovereignties is called Society. This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence comes what is called the social tie.
- Victor Hugo