Common Man Quotes

The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

I do not choose to be a common man.

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.

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.

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

It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.

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

Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people.

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.

Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man.

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

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.

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

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.

I didn't become CM on 07-10-2001. I have always been CM, I am CM today and shall be CM forever. For me CM means not Chief Minister but Common Man.

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

I think every rapper should know how to sing, like a little bit. I mean common man it'll make your rapping better straight up.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.

The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!.

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

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.

It was so easy to sell anything to the common people, if one could add an element of magic and some religion into it

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

You're a part of the order if you're not against it.

Success of democracy lies within the analytical thought of a common man.

When picking a leader, choose a peacemaker. One who unites, not divides. A cultured leader who supports the arts and true freedom of speech, not censorship.

The legal system has been designed by governments and corporations to protect them from the common people.

The World is quick to label you, but it will take ages to take a stand!

In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people.