We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up.
Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.
I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
Since its inception, the government has broken and coerced treaties with hundreds of Native American tribes. And this is even worse when you realize that the native peoples of this land are negotiating for land that is, by all common sense and elementary school logic, their land.
When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something.
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.
I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.
I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.
Observation and thinking are the two points of departure for all the spiritual striving of man, insofar as he is conscious of such striving. The workings of common sense, as well as the most complicated scientific researches, rest on these two fundamental pillars of our spirit.
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
I have confidence in people's basic common sense.
It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!
Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it.
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
They're lots of good Americans here in New York who have common sense and who believe in free markets and free people and limited government under our Constitution. Those are the principles I've always stood for. I know they're right, and that's what I'm going to stand for.
The truth of anything doesn't matter anymore. What's right doesn't matter. What makes economic common sense doesn't matter. I'm blue in the face over it.
Our experience in Hawaii has shown that we can place common sense limits on gun sales, demonstrate our respect for gun owners, and, most importantly, help ensure the safety of our residents.
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.
If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.
Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
Hillary Clinton has spent those decades before her time in public office and since her time in public office advocating for common sense measures to fight gun violence.
Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
