Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2014, Sixth State of the Union Address (January 2014)
Revolution (2014)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2014, Sixth State of the Union Address (January 2014)
Liu Yandong (1945) Chinese politician
Source: "刘延东:中南人民守望相助 友谊历久弥坚" https://www.mfa.gov.cn/ce/cezanew//chn/zngxss/jyjl/t1457724.htm (27 April 2017)
Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921) Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geogr…
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
“Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense…”
David Deutsch book The Fabric of Reality
The Fabric of Reality (1997)
Lawrence Lessig book Free Culture
Free Culture (2004)
Context: A simple idea blinds us, and under the cover of darkness, much happens that most of us would reject if any of us looked. So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them. So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically. Blindness becomes our common sense. And the challenge for anyone who would reclaim the right to cultivate our culture is to find a way to make this common sense open its eyes.
So far, common sense sleeps. There is no revolt. Common sense does not yet see what there could be to revolt about.
Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999) Indian politician
Address By Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma President Of India On The Occasion Of The 50th Anniversary Of The First Sitting Of The Constituent Assembly
“A united Georgia needs our unity now, to work together towards our many common goals.”
Mikheil Saakashvili (1967) Georgian-Ukrainian politician, President of Georgia and Governor of Odessa
Source: Inaugural address https://civil.ge/archives/114132 (21 January 2008)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989) American politician
Twitter post, https://twitter.com/AOC (22 February 2019) <br class="br">Twitter Quotes (2019), February 2019
“Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
State of the Union address http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=40205 (25 January 1984) <br class="br">1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
1920s, Whose Country Is This? (1921)
Context: From its very beginning our country has been enriched by a complete blend of varied strains in the same ethnic family. We are, in some sense, an immigrant nation, molded in the fires of a common experience. That common experience is our history. And it is that common experience we must hand down to our children, even as the fundamental principles of Americanism, based on righteousness, were handed down to us, in perpetuity, by the founders of our government.