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Source: The Last Detective
In November 2003. breakingnews.ie http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/higgins-mccreevy-must-deliver-tax-justice-in-budget-123560.html
“Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.”
The Weight of Glory (1949)
Context: It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations — these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit — immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.
“If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do–and don't do it.”
Source: Success is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices Change Your Life
“They’re just ordinary people,” Nancy said. “You can’t expect too much of them.”
Source: All Flesh is Grass (1965), Chapter 17 (p. 179)