#common man

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring? ↗

— Simon Raven

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There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war. ↗

— Ernest Bevin

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

— John Wooden

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If we reject science, we reject the common man. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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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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