Ordinary People Quotes

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates

Death, Philosophy, Themselves

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Socrates

Good, Power, Wish

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Milton Friedman

History, Free, Far

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.
Stephen Hawking

Time, Why, Everyone

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
Aleister Crowley

Morality, Ordinary

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
Chuck Palahniuk

Best, Real, Sense

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
Stephen King

God, Daily, Speak

For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.
Nick Clegg

Time, End, Long

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
Michel de Montaigne

Speak, Themselves, Complain

Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.
Bo Bennett

Made, Marketing, Ordinary

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
William J. Clinton

Good, Power, Government

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
Tony Blair

Freedom, Democracy, Law

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
Charles de Gaulle

Judge, Leader, Big

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
Mike Huckabee

Rise, Truly, Above

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
Steven Spielberg

Large, Ordinary, Forces

Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.
Howard Dean

Person, Perfect, Sometimes

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
Philip Zimbardo

Good, Smart, Evil

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
Robertson Davies

Become, Survive, Terrible

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Ben Stein

Amazing, Ordinary, Notions

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
Pam Brown

Courage, Dark, Between

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
Philip K. Dick

Ordinary, Heroic, Resistance

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Boris Pasternak

Art, Saying, Words

The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
Pat Robertson

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.
Hermann Hesse

Love, Cannot, Secret

Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out.
John Podhoretz

Bad, Same, Cheating

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
Doris Lessing

Respect, Society, Learning

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
Pete Townshend

Sometimes, Tell, Story

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Daryn Kagan

War, Bad, Happen

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
Christopher Lasch

Language, Left, Common

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
Stephen Leacock

Two, Ordinary, Dislike

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