We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small. — Joel Miller 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
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
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness. — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good. — Pope Francis 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
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
Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good. — Joel Miller 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
An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is… — Herbert Hoover 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
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
For Christians, faith is a precious good, the most valuable personal and social resource. When it is left untapped, the common good… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
I am a strong believer in the free market. I am a strong believer in capitalism. But, I am also a strong… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
God ordained and established civil government, but only to serve the common good. A civil government that oppresses its people and acts… — Daniel L Dreisbach 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
“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
“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
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
The rationale for universal compassion is based on the same principle of spiritual democracy. It is the recognition of the fact that… — Dalai Lama 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
