Common Quotes

“Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infinity

“Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.”
― Norman Mailer

“When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.”
― Clarence Darrow, The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow

“A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.”
― Confucius

“To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things. Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological. So if you want to see real change, stay persistent in educating humanity on how similar we all are than different. Don't only strive to be the change you want to see in the world, but also help all those around you see the world through commonalities of the heart so that they would want to change with you. This is how humanity will evolve to become better. This is how you can change the world. The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy peasant simplicity, which, however, is possible in all classes and can be encountered only with respect and a smile, believes even today that everything is in good hands, namely in the "hands of God"; and when it maintains this proportion with the same modest certainty as it would that two and two make four, we others certainly refrain from contradicting. Why disturb THIS pure foolishness? Why darken it with our worries about man, people, goal, future? And even if we wanted to do it, we could not. They project their own honorable stupidity and goodness into the heart of things (the old God, deus myops, still lives among them!); we others — we read something else into the heart of things: our own enigmatic nature, our contradictions, our deeper, more painful, more mistrustful wisdom.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

“Cats cant speak, that's common sense.
-Yoruichi ”
― Tite Kubo

“The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.”
― Queen Elizabeth I, The letters of Queen Elizabeth I;

“Love is the most common miracle.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“LOVE is made up of a strong affection and patience whiles LUST is made up of a strong affection and impatience. Affection is common to them, but patience is not common.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Resistance is common to the unusual.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Throughout the world what remains of the vast public spaces are now only the stuff of legends: Robin Hood’s forest, the Great Plains of the Amerindians, the steppes of the nomadic tribes, and so forth… Rousseau said that the first person who wanted a piece of nature as his or her own exclusive possession and transformed it into the transcendent form of private property was the one who invented evil. Good, on the contrary, is what is common.”
― Antonio Negri Michael Hardt, Impero

“We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.”
― Robert Ingersoll

“A pineapple is a compilation of berries that grow and fuse together. When joined, they create a single fruit. And within each eyelet, contains a location where a flower may grow. I see the Creator of all existence as the crown on a pineapple, and all religions of the world as the spiky eyelets, where each eyelet symbolizes a different religion or race under the same crown. Each garden of faith may have different perspectives of God, yet every garden belongs to the same God.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“That's common sense Joe! And your tiny mind is not common!”
― Gordon Ramsay

“There is no UFO and also there is no alien,
at least not in common mind nor reference.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“If we reject science, we reject the common man.”
― Naguib Mahfouz

“There's a weird logic that explains a common truth.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“If you want to find wilier race by common sense,
then you have just narrowed your searching area.”
― Toba Beta

“Sahtekarlığın evrensel düzeyde egemen olduğu dönemlerde, gerçeği söylemek devrimci bir eylemdir.”
― George Orwell

“It is common for police officers to have aggression issues at home.”
― Steven Magee

“Liver damage was common in Long COVID.”
― Steven Magee, Long COVID Supplements

“Getting the police internal affairs runaround is common in police corruption research.”
― Steven Magee

“Police officer misconduct is common, what is very rare is the government doing something about it.”
― Steven Magee

“Some things that are common should never become commonplace- usual, expected, the "norm". Hate crimes, for example, are increasingly common.
Never stop being outraged by them.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“Is what happened tonight common?'

'Which part? The marriage proposal or the open-heart surgery?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“It was what the gleeman had called Plain Chant, those nights beside the fire on the ride north. Stories, he said, were told in three voices, High Chant, Plain Chant, and Common, which meant simply telling it the way you might tell your neighbor about your crop. Thom told stories in Common, but he did not bother to hide his contempt for the voice.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“The common person is powerless.”
― Steven Magee