Best Common Man Quotes

The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

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.

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.

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.

As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art– What dreams have these to hide from death!

If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced about 60 years ago, all those new products whose consumption has raised the standard of living of the ‘common man’ would either not be produced at all or only in small quantities for the benefit of a minority. The Ford enterprises would not exist if Henry Ford’s profits had been taxed away as soon as they came into being.

For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find ’tis better to be a commander than a common man!

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

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.

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

I definitely try to play a common man in my roles so people can identify with my characters, but the truth of the matter is that it doesn’t really matter what I do or my lines are, I’m still Zach Braff, and people know I’m better than them.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.

I work for the suffering of the common man, something I am very proud of and will continue to do.

If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.

What the common man cannot understand he hates.

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent ‘the people’. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called ‘common men and women’ have increased it.

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

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.

The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.

No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.

I am not in the roll of common men.

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

The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.