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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Religion
Wise
People
Rulers
True
False
Common
Regarded
Common People
Useful
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
Good
Democracy
People
Know
Get
Common
Want
Common People
Hard
Theory
Deserve
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
Walt Whitman
Best
People
Genius
States
Churches
Colleges
Inventors
Most
Executives
Always
Nor
Ambassador
Authors
Common
Common People
Newspapers
Even
United
United States
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education
People
Purpose
Compulsory
Common
Common People
Commonsense
Deprive
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion
People
Excellent
Stuff
Quiet
Common
Common People
Keeping
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
People
Strong
Mind
Cowards
Weak
Laugh
Dread
Weapon
Strong Mind
Pointed
Empty
Common
Common People
Ridicule
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.
John Boyle O'Reilly
People
Liberty
Independence
Aim
Air
Could
Individual
Individual Liberty
Aristocracy
Always
Been
Same
Common
Common People
Breathe
Lower
Royalty
God must hate common people, because he made them so common.
Philip Wylie
God
Hate
People
Made
Must
He
Because
Common
Common People
Them
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Charles Dickens
People
Complaint
Station
Rise
Above
Fact
Uncommon
Take
May
Often
Common
Being
Common People
Below
We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.
Johnny Van Zant
Class
People
About
Write
Always
Real
America
Common
Stories
Common People
Common Things
Working
Working-Class
Things
What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.
Muhammad Yunus
Good
Food
Business
People
Healthy
Restaurants
Joint
Prices
Venture
Trying
Affordable
Bangladesh
Common
Common People
Unhealthy
Social
Create
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.
Roger Ascham
Wise
Man
People
Speak
Will
Men
Judgment
Every
Think
Must
Follow
Counsel
Write
Allow
He
Wise Men
Aristotle
Well
Him
Understand
Any
Common
Common People
Should
Every Man
Tongue
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
Andrew O'Hagan
Good
People
Depend
Nationalism
Struggling
Myths
Principle
Common
Common People
Commonality