There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure. — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
“REJECT THE LIES AND VIOLENCE. STAND FOR LOVE, TRUTH, DECENCY AND THE COMMON GOOD.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home. — Jonathan Sacks 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
In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community. — Joseph C. Rost Copy Share Image
What a better world this could be with less ME and more Us as persons thinking for the common good not just… — Laylablack Copy Share Image
Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good? — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect… — Salvatore J. Cordileone Copy Share Image
“All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment; action for the common good in the present moment; and… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are… — Jeff Miller Copy Share Image
Public values are not only under attack in the United States and elsewhere but appear to have become irrelevant just as those… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Human life, the person is no longer perceived as a primary value to be respected and protected, especially if poor or disabled,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“As an evangelical Christian, I come to this discussion with motivations about the common good and human flourishing, but beyond these merely… — Russell Moore Copy Share Image
You talk about the [armed] service teaches you how to depend on each other, the service makes you aware of the common… — Jerry Jones Copy Share Image
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
This is the rule of most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the seeking of the common good… — Saint John Chrysostom 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
“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
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
My goal is to achieve a little less injustice in Uruguay, to help the most vulnerable and to leave behind a political… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
I was always interested in the larger picture, I was pre-law in college, and had a degree in economics. I was very… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Religious pluralism is neither mere coexistence nor forced consensus. It is a form of proactive cooperation that affirms the identity of the… — Eboo Patel 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
“..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
“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
“This emphasis on the difference between intentions and ultimate results constituted an implicit critique of the Christian and civic republican traditions, and… — Jerry Z. Muller 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
The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it… — Pope Leo XII Copy Share Image
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