What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
While we try to amass wealth, make piles of money, get hold of the land as our real property, overtop one another… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Every great Labour government has been elected with a compelling national story about the condition of Britain and how they intended to… — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion...[has] divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“They--the books I mean, not the ladies of Technical Services, though maybe those ladies too--might have dreamed of a different life in… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
“Although the natural rights inherent in our( Constitutional) regime are adequate to the solution of this ( minority) problem...the equal protection of… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“The demands of the self have primacy, mistress. Always, else there would be no champions. There would be no hierarchy at all.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“Mr. de Pinto, the dog who protects sheep quickly learns how to direct them, and it becomes a habit. The people have… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“My time in the Middle East led me to realize that, with a few rare exceptions, the dominant political ideology there—whether you… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
What I mean by the common good is that we understand we're all part of something bigger than ourselves, that we live… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
Too many politicians are shifting the critical themes of our national conversations from a 'big ideas' American Brand Platform to narrowly focused,… — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
The Gospel calls individual Christians to live lives of honesty, integrity and concern for the common good.. to create circles of integrity..,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The advanced organizations of Thinking must teach with their example by cooperating. Every human organization can cooperate in one or another way… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
“Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does. What people think and believe and plan are… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels… — Thomas Piketty 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
The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's uncritically enthusiastic modern disciples portray his invisible hand theory as saying that market forces reliably harness selfish individuals to serve… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
“we’re subtly pressed to believe what we’re expected to believe as a good “conservative” or a good “liberal.” Anything outside our narrow… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed… — Charles Perrault Copy Share Image
“there’s a single phrase to describe Sister Simone, it is “compassionate conviction.” With bravery, with courage, with optimism, she is focused on… — Sister Simone Campbell Copy Share Image
World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
To be actively pro-life is to contribute to the renewal of society through the promotion of the common good. It is impossible… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I abhor the word "consumer." Consumers, unlike citizens, have no implicit duties, obligations, or responsibilities to the common good. It's a degrading… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Now then, if we were to go the lowest road and plaster my face on the bottle of oil and vinegar dressing… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
There is something desperately lonely about Barack Obama's universe. One gets the overwhelming sense of someone yearning for connection, for something that… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common… — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
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