Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
Young people oppose those market-driven values and practices aimed at both creating radically individualized subjects and undermining those public spheres that create… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
For her part, the Church always works for the integral development of every person. In this sense, she reiterates that the common… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
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
We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is… — Joan Wallach Scott 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
“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
“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
The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples. She urges financial… — Pope Francis 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
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
Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Democracy is extremely complex; it is extremely concrete. It's about constantly choosing, finding, developing practical options within the common good. Constantly searching… — John Ralston Saul 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
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
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
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
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
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
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