A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
Andrew O'Hagan
George Jean Nathan
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
James Howell
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
Jean Henri Fabre
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
John Boyle O'Reilly
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.