Common People

Famous quotes containing the words common people, common and/or people:

“The difference between people isn’t in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people—life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

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

“In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don’t fall out they let them live another year.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)