#common man

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

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I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

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The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon. ↗

— Norman Angell

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I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships. ↗

— James Caan

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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. ↗

— Confucius

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Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. ↗

— William Allen White

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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man. ↗

— William Beveridge

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I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common. ↗

— Angus Wilson

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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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