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1 " Every religion has extremists, and extremists have more in common with each other than they do with the common people of their faith. "
― Orli Matlow
2 " It is unreasonable for the common people to expect a known corrupt legal system to protect them. "
― Steven Magee
3 " No amount of community policing will cause the common people to accept a known corrupt police department. "
4 " While police officers who blatantly shaft the common people believe that they are God, they are the Devil to those that they wrong. "
5 " Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. "
6 " If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred. "
― Baruch Spinoza , Theological-Political Treatise
7 " Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains. "
― Criss Jami , Killosophy
8 " I have seen the poor suffer when nobles seek the purity of ideals. I have seen the powerless die when princes believe in the nostalgia of their dreams. I have seen the common people torn from peace and thrown into war when kings yearn to test the clarity of their vision. "
― Ken Liu , The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty, #1)
9 " The majority of the common people do not realize that calling 911 may result in a stressed out armed police officer that has a range of medical issues and is taking potent prescription drugs being sent to out to them. "
10 " No person can escape the germs of their eventual deterioration and destruction. A round-table of physical breakdown and death awaits the rich person and the poor person, as well as the common people and world leaders. The skulls of noble men and savages alike litter the streets of ancient cities. Modern humans live longer than the ancient people did, but eventually we all succumb to the same wretched infirmities. "
― , Dead Toad Scrolls
11 " He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. "
12 " The majority of the common people do not realize how corrupt the legal system has become until that blatant corruption shows up at their own homes. "
13 " Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded-. "
― Anthony Burgess
14 " Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. "
― H.L. Mencken , A Little Book In C Major
15 " Hamilton wanted to lead the electorate and provide expert opinion instead of consulting popular opinion. He took tough, uncompromising stands and gloried in abstruse ideas in a political culture that pined for greater simplicity. Alexander Hamilton triumphed as a doer and thinker, not as a leader of the average voter. He was simply too unashamedly brainy to appeal to the masses. Fisher Ames observed of Hamilton that the common people don't want leaders 'whom they see elevated by nature and education so far above their heads. "
― Ron Chernow
16 " Mrs. Rouncewell holds this opinion because she considers that a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost. She regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes, a genteel distinction to which the common people have no claim. "
― Charles Dickens , Bleak House
17 " Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. "
― Seneca
18 " Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying. "
19 " Dorian, Dorian," she cried, " before I knew you, acting was the one reality of my life. It was only in the theatre that I lived. I thought that it was all true. I was Rosalind one night and Portia the other. The joy of Beatrice was my joy, and the sorrows of Cordelia were mine also. I believed in everything. The common people who acted with me seemed to me to be godlike. The painted scenes were my world. I knew nothing but shadows, and I thought them real. You came—oh, my beautiful love!— and you freed my soul from prison. You taught me what reality really is. To-night, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in which I had always played. To-night, for the first time, I became conscious that the Romeo was hideous, and old, and painted, that the moonlight in the orchard was false, that the scenery was vulgar, and that the words I had to speak were unreal, were not my words, were not what I wanted to say. You had brought me something higher, something of which all art is but a reflection. "
20 " Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. "
― Richard Dawkins , The God Delusion
