Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Nepal is our closest neighbour, and we must make every effort to ensure that, as a small neighbour, we attend to their perceptions. Even when they are wrong, we have an obligation to create an environment in which the common people in Nepal feel that in India they have a great friend.
It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
God must hate common people, because he made them so common.
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always write about.
We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.
They say that the cuisines of different Chinese provinces arose originally to serve different kinds of constituencies. Beijing was the cuisine of officials. In Shanghai, that was the cuisine of wealthy merchants and industrialists. In Szechwan, the food of the common people. Many great Szechwan dishes originated in street stalls.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
I tell people: walk around for one month and write down three problems in your life every day. At first it's easy - you got stuck in traffic, you missed your alarm - but by the end of the month you're looking really hard to get your 90 problems. The most common things on your list are now billion-dollar businesses.
Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.
What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
At the end of the day, the one commonality that both Hindi cinema and Hollywood share is that they are full of talented and inspirational people. Outside of this, there are many differences, from the scheduling and rehearsal to promotion and directing techniques.
