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Naturally, the common people don’t want war... but after all it is the leaders of a 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 to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country (Common People Quotes)
Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions (Common People Quotes)
We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel (Common People Quotes)
It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools (Common People Quotes)
No genuine change in society ever occurs without the mass public getting behind a cause. The good guys in government are counting on enough of us common people waking up and demanding more rights and greater freedoms (Common People Quotes)
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 (Common People Quotes)
The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars; but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others (Common People Quotes)
History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people (Common People Quotes)
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh (Common People Quotes)
Whoever gives the common people food to eat is a good person whoever lets the common people starve is a bad person (Common People Quotes)
We have to fight terror in one voice, rising above politics. That is when the common people will feel secure (Common People Quotes)
It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer (Common People Quotes)
Naturally the common people don’t want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along (Common People Quotes)
Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won’t forget the basic principles of freedom (Common People Quotes)
The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny (Common People Quotes)
The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped (Common People Quotes)
All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That’s why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people (Common People Quotes)
I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do (Common People Quotes)
Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty (Common People Quotes)
Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce (Common People Quotes)
Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man. I’m looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average (Common People Quotes)
The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war (Common People Quotes)
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me (Common People Quotes)
As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities (Common People Quotes)
And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I said above, if a prince wishes to maintain the state, he is often obliged not to be good; because whenever that group which you believe you need to support you is corrupted, whether it be the common people, the soldiers, or the nobles, it is to your advantage to follow their inclinations in order to satisfy them; and then good actions are your enemy (Common People Quotes)
The common people have scarcely any culture, the great have no soul... Were I to choose between the two, I should select, without hesitation, being a plebeian (Common People Quotes)
The greater philosopher a man is, the more difficult it is for him to answer the foolish questions of common people (Common People Quotes)
To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do (Common People Quotes)
The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure (Common People Quotes)
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows vain persons than virtuous ones (Common People Quotes)