The greatest ideas are the simplest.

None but lawyers and historians are aware how much of truth, justice and good sense, there is in the notions of the Communists, as to the community of property. Laying no stress on the too abstract proposition that Providence gave the world not to one man, or set of men, but to all mankind, it is a fact that all governments, in civilized countries, recognize the obligation to support the poor, and thus, in some degree, make all property a common possession.

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."

Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."

Big ideas are usually simple ideas.

Great ideas and great melodies have a lot in common

The concept of property itself had come up out of the common law and carried with it the idea of a natural, or common-law rights of liberty to acquire, use and dispose of physical things.

[T]he common ideals of racial equality, political freedom, extending the right of self-government to the rest of the Commonwealth, non-aggression in international affairs, economic co-operation, and aid between nations. These ideals may be imperfectly realised in many instances, but, nevertheless, they, and they alone, give the Commonwealth its real justification today, just as the extraordinary variety in terms of geography, race and religion of the Commonwealth provides a wonderful opportunity to advance these ideals in a practical form in the world as a whole.

The league at Allstedt wanted to establish this principle, Omnia sunt communia, ‘All property should be held in common’ and should be distributed to each according to his needs, as the occasion required. Any prince, count, or lord who did not want to do this, after first being warned about it, should be beheaded or hanged.

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-'
'Are all very well for common people.