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  • I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

    Swimming   Blow   Men  
    Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.60, tredition
  • The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.

    Men   Progress   Branches  
    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.150, Tuttle Publishing
  • The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.

    Art   War   Men  
  • Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

    Angel   Men   Saint  
    Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown
  • A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man.

    Men   Today   Poverty  
  • The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.

    Men   Thinking   Mind  
  • Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' - and that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.

  • When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds have begun their slow, fat rolling journey across the sky, no land in the world can inspire such love in a common man.

  • 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.

    Life   Success   Men  
  • Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.

    Men   People   Age  
    Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.3, Ludwig von Mises Institute
  • I don't choose to be a common man. I want to be better tomorrow than today. And through a commitment to work and discipline, but mostly hard work. I'll be a little more content, and a little different from the average guy.

  • Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.

    Men   Goal   Aviation  
  • I do not choose to be a common man.

    Men   Common   Common Man  
    Who's who in America: 43rd Edition, 1984-1985, Volume 1, (p. 42), 1984.
  • Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

    Wise   Men   Littles  
  • A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.

  • My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

  • It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.

    Men   Luxury   Doe  
    Ludwig von Mises (2016). “An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist”, p.105, VM eBooks
  • The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.

    Men   People   Foundation  
  • The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves.

    Children   Hero   Men  
    Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.113, Open Road Media
  • Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

    Sports   New York   Hero  
  • Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.

    Military   Men   Together  
    Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.515, Da Capo Press
  • The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.

  • I am not in the roll of common men.

    Men   Common   Conceit  
    'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [42]
  • I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

    Religious   Men   Atheism  
    James A. Michener (2014). “The World Is My Home: A Memoir”, p.283, Dial Press
  • Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world

    Hero   Mean   Men  
    Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.69, Vintage
  • Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of plenty upon the common man. It has raised the average standard of living to a height never dreamed of in earlier ages. It has made accessible to millions of people enjoyments which a few generations ago were only within the reach of a small élite.

    Men   Average   People  
    Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.49, Ludwig von Mises Institute
  • Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

    Hero   Mean   Men  
    "The Simple Art of Murder," Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1944
  • The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

    Men   Done   Morality  
  • When the bell tolls three times, it will announce that I have been killed. If I am killed by common men, you and your children will rule Russia for centuries to come; if I am killed by one of your stock, you and your family will be killed by the Russian people! Pray Tsar of Russia. Pray.

    Children   Men   Russia  
  • The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.

    Men   Want   Common  
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