“The privileges of a few do not make common law.”
Exposition on Jona
Commentaries, Old Testament
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“That seems to us to be the common sense of the matter; and common sense often makes good law.”
William O. Douglas (1898–1980) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Writing for the court, Peak v. United States, 353 U.S. 43 (1957)
Judicial opinions
Jack Williamson book Star Bridge
Source: Star Bridge (1955), “The History,” prelude to Chapter 3, “The Narrow Bridge” (p. 37)
“The history of the world is the history of a privileged few.”
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist
Sunday after the war (1944), pub. New Directions.
“The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.”
László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) Hungarian artist
Moholy-Nagy by László Moholy-Nagy (1970) p. 238.
“Communism was the regime for the privileged elite, capitalism the creed for the common man.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
The Path To Power (1995)
“It is the principle of the common law, that an officer ought not to take money for doing his duty.”
John Eardley Wilmot (1709–1792) English judge
Stotesbury v. Smith (1759), 2 Burr. Part IV. 928.
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
Source: Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
“Few of them made it to thirty.
Old age was the privilege of rocks and trees.”
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"Our Ancestors' Short Lives"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The People on the Bridge (1986)
Context: Few of them made it to thirty.
Old age was the privilege of rocks and trees.
Childhood ended as fast as wolf cubs grow.
One had to hurry, to get on with life
before the sun went down,
before the first snow.