“The "self," it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.” — Martha MacCullough Copy Share Image
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
When it all boils down, its about embracing each others stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Humanism inspires a lot of enthusiasm for everyday life and urges people to be better to one another, to work towards a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Always follow these two rules: first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes for the good of humanity, and second, change… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“In truth, a State whose society is not sovereign is no sovereign State at all. Such is the case when a society… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
We talk about democracy as if it's a safeguard for individual rights... Instead, it's become our way of intruding on rights, allegedly… — Jonathan D. Morris Copy Share Image
Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them… — Douglas Massey Copy Share Image
The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You are a bundle of mysteries. Finding and conquering yourself is a lifetime task. There are unplumbed depths in you full of… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“Burke argued that political parties were not, as many people insisted, factions each contending for its own particular advantage, but rather were… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“No, sir! If, for example, in earlier times it was said to me: “Love your neighbour” and I acted on it, what… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Many, Lorenzo, have held and still hold the opinion, that there is nothing which has less in common with another, and that… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“First agriculture, and then industry, changed two fundamental things about the human experience. The accumulation of personal property allowed people to make… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“..I began speaking.. First, I took issue with the media's characterization of the post-Katrina New Orleans as resembling the third world as… — Billy Sothern Copy Share Image
“We deem it opportune to remind our children of their duty to take an active part in public life and to contribute… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
“The forces at work in healthy party politics are centripetal; they encourage factions and interests to come together to work out common… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“Truth loves nothing better than simplicity of truth: that is the lesson Columbe Josse ought to have learned from her medieval readings.… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Though they have things in common, good writing and talented writing are not the same. […] If you start with a confused,… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
We need to hold accountable anyone who has misused power, and put that power to work for the common good. That includes,… — Cal Cunningham Copy Share Image
The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost. — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“He talked about democracy and good citizenship and about a good world where everyone did the best he could for the common… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person. — Arpad Busson Copy Share Image
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