Gewöhnlicher Mensch / Common Man Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Gewöhnlicher Mensch / Common Man:

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man. Greg Graffin

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Herbert Hoover

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?

Simon Raven

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Confucius

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

Naguib Mahfouz

I think I'm a common man for the most part, but I don't work as hard as most people that I know.

Jason Isbell

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

Shaffi Mather

I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.

Eugene Levy

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic.

Stanley Hauerwas

Even when candidates have degrees from Harvard and Yale, they try to run as the candidate of the common man.

H. W. Brands

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

Mark Rylance

I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.

A. R. Rahman

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

Ernest Bevin

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

William Allen White

There is no room any more for the divisive agenda which has been sought to be foisted on the common man.

Piyush Goyal

I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.

Watkin Tudor Jones

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

Angus Wilson

Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.

Viswanathan Anand

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

Vince McMahon

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

Gilbert Murray

I realised after doing 'Tanu Weds Manu' that I had become fat and was not performing to the mark. I realised that I had become a terrible actor. I did 'Jodi Breakers,' which did not do well. So, I moved away from the film industry and lived with the common man to know where I was lacking and what do they want from an actor.

R. Madhavan

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

Norman Angell

I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships.

James Caan

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

Narendra Modi

Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.

Vijay

A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.

Kid Rock

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

Peter O'Toole

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

Kailash Kher

Magna Carta only came into being in 1217, when the wording had been changed and parts of the original were extended in the Charter of the Forests. This complementary charter covered liberties granted to the common man, including rights to the commons, grazing, fishing, water, and firewood, and was perhaps the first ecological charter in history.

Guy Standing

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

Ang Lee

The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

Kailash Kher

About the only way you can find out about the common man, his slang, what he looked like, what he thought, is through the comic strips. It's a powerful way for young people to learn history.

Mort Walker

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

Greg Graffin

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

William Beveridge

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.

Tony Fernandes

No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.

Lal Bahadur Shastri