Common

Famous quotes containing the word common:

    We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the, the pistol of common sense.
    Samuel Fuller (b. 1911)

    This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send away for treatises and “be your own doctor” or “emergency treatments” and end up by discovering that they have at least 300 or 400 illnesses, whose symptoms they are experiencing.
    Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937)

    This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouching the old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)