1.
That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.
L. Frank Baum
2.
When the leaders speak of peace
 The common folk know
 That war is coming
 When the leaders curse war
 The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread
 I go to the market where lies are bought
 Hopefully
 I take up my place among the sellers.
Bertolt Brecht
3.
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
Charles Baudelaire
4.
The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions of such a man. They like him to boss them. Their natural gait is the goose step.
H. L. Mencken
6.
It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.
Ludwig van Beethoven
7.
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
Bertolt Brecht
8.
Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.
Fatima bint Muhammad
9.
Gehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak.
Willard Mullin