There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
I would like the government to do all it can to mitigate, then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for… — Warren G Copy Share Image
Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Be it terrorists or 'blinded by greed' capitalists or 'deaf and dumb and siloed' officials, special interests will always tyrannize the common… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
“Depression, I have argued, stems partly from an overcommitment to the self and an undercommitment to the common good. This” — Martin E.P. Seligman Copy Share Image
There is an important message that all political leaders should be taking from the response to coronavirus, and that is that people… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
“Throughout his life Leibniz nursed essentially the same dream: the dream of recalling the multiplicity of human knowledge to a logical, metaphysical,… — Maria Rosa Antognazza Copy Share Image
Even if you look at the planet, and you think it's easy to be distraught and depressed, common goodness - human goodness… — Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Copy Share Image
Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together,… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
Vote wisely! Weigh each candidate's qualifications, track record in public service or as a private citizen, over-all personal competencies and dedication to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely… — Stephane Hessel Copy Share Image
I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
You are already leaders. Your ideas, your actions and your decisions make a difference. More than any other generation, you have a… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“Working on behalf of the common good is the engine of democracy, vital to our communities, cities, states—and, ultimately, the nation. It… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Most people have a sense that things have gone terribly wrong. It's not just some giveaways to the rich and the rigging… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
“Our Negro problem, therefore, is not of the Negro's making. No group in our population is less responsible for its existence. But… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“The four million Minangkabau living in West Sumatra consider themselves to be a matriarchal society. “While we in the West glorify male… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“The big tech companies—the Europeans have charmingly, and correctly, lumped them together as GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon)—are shredding the principles that… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“In these our cowardly times, we deny the grandeur of the Universal, and assert and glorify our local Bigotries, and so we… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The most important lesson is this: that for two generations America has been without a political vision of its destiny. There is… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“So it’s democracy versus capitalism at this point, friends, and we out on this frontier outpost of the human world are perhaps… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“The Goddess-centered art we have been examining, with its striking absence of images of male domination or warfare, seems to have reflected… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“This emphasis on the difference between intentions and ultimate results constituted an implicit critique of the Christian and civic republican traditions, and… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
“So when we say that Christians work from a gospel worldview, it does not mean that they are constantly speaking about Christian… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“In light of their views on the organization of society and political economy, Westerners, especially Americans, can be separated into two basic… — Sarah Chayes Copy Share Image
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
