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Letter "C" » common people
«Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine 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 any country.»
Author: Hermann Goering
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Politics,
War
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«God must hate common people, because he made them so common»
Author: Philip Wylie
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common people
«Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
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aristocracy, bourgeoisie, common people, in so far, worries
«Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the viruous.»
«Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Prayer
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beg, common people
«Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
common good, common people
«In the common people there is no wisdom, no penetration, no power of judgment»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
common people, judgment, penetration
«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 pe»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«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 the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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«Nicknames are vulgar. Only common people use them.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
common people, nicknamed, Nicknames, nicknaming, vulgar
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