Common Good Quotes

There are various ways you might define the common good, but that would be one way you could do it.

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

I believe in cooperating for the common good.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good.

The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost.

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

Keep in view the common good of the people for all time.

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all.

Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.

People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

What good is faith if it causes pain for another? What good is religion if it does no good? What good is any belief that leads to hate?

Tolerance means to have the heart open to all differences

Art is a positive "FORCE" that bring beings together for the common good. Only the people who had lost a piece of themselves can create the unimaginary.

The "self, " it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.

Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good

The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.

In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people.