We are called to serve the common good by engaging with political and other institutions, even in our pluralistic society. We bring… — John I. Jenkins Copy Share Image
It doesn't thrill me to bits that the state has to use the tools of electronic surveillance to keep us safe, but… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Sometimes we think we're a little too gifted to show up, yo uknow. But none of us truly is...By avoiding risk we… — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
“Through their teachings they dignify even the most mundane professions. According to them any profession or work that adds to the common… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Markets do not automatically generate trust, cooperation or collective action for the common good. Quite the contrary: it is in the nature… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
“First of all, the people has a right to passive resistance. The tyrannical law that is a law against reason, a law… — Heinrich A. Rommen 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
While patriotism is often lauded as an unquestionable value, the status of patriotism is a problem for many thoughtful people. It is… — Stephen Nathanson Copy Share Image
“Is there a way forward, when campaign financing and mega-lobbying have displaced the common good and have led Americans to despair about… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“When people become self-centred and self-enclosed, their greed increases. The emptier a person’s heart is, the more he or she needs things… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Throughout the 1980's, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
During the Enlightenment, there were brilliant thinkers who realized that, if you assume most people are naturally selfish and you construct the… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
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
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
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
Different political views, even if they're all liberal, in the sense of supporting liberal constitutional democracy, undoubtedly have some notion of the… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good. Thus… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society,… — Rowan Williams 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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 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
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
The greatest problem before engineers and managers today is the economical utilization of labor . The limiting of output by the workman,… — Henry Gantt Copy Share Image
In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage,… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for… — King Felipe VI Copy Share Image
History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
