Common Man – Quotes

I am the common

I am the common man. I’m polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That’s my lifestyle, and that’s what I try to bring to characters. Eugene Levy

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

America is still the

America is still the best country for the common man — white or black … if he can’t make it here he won’t make it anywhere else. Eric Hoffer

The downfall of every

The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places. E. Digby Baltzell

Uncommon men require no

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds. Friedrich Schiller

The masters have been

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed. Friedrich Nietzsche

Least of all shall

Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend. Friedrich August von Hayek

By playing down to

By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him… So the ideal of innate aristocracy of which hour forefathers dreamed is betrayed for votes in the name of democracy. Frank Lloyd Wright

When I come out

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 … Read more

Rome tolerated every abominable

Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to … Read more