“The common people are nothing more than the raw material of which a People is made.”
Dr. Stockmann, Act IV
An Enemy of the People (1882)
“Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.”
The Joke (1967)
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Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 16, “The Wild Hunt” (p. 278)
Benito Mussolini
(1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
1900s, God Does Not Exist (1904)
“[W]e may... find more common ground than we currently imagine.”
Laurence Tribe
(1941) American lawyer and law school professor
Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990), Approaching Abortion Anew
“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
(1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
Anonymous saying, dating back at least to its citation in Natural Theology (1836) by Thomas Chalmers, Bk. II, Ch. III : On the Strength of the Evidences for a God in the Phenomena of Visible and External Nature, § 15, where the author states: "It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense."; it has since become misattributed to particular people, including Frank Lloyd Wright.
Misattributed
“Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable.”
William Shakespeare
(1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), ch. XII : Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Misattributed
Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Criminal_Minds_(season_1) Criminal Minds] ("L.D.S.K." - season 1, episode 6).
Vincent Van Gogh
(1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Quote in Vincent's letter, from Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888; as cited in Van Gogh : The Self-portraits (1969) by Fritz Erpel, p. 17
Variant translations: The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
As quoted in Mary Engelbreit's Words To Live By (1999) by Mary Engelbreit
I tell you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
1880s, 1888
Variant: There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.