“He has no understanding of government, no experience in government, and no appreciation of government’s overriding concern—the common good. This” — Scott McMurrey 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
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
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
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
If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Let's all pull together and make these United States the grandest place in this whole country. I see a vision. A glorious… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
No one should be forced to violate one's conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because… — Donald Wuerl 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
There is an important message that all political leaders should be taking from the response to coronavirus, and that is that people… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“The individual is seen as the ultimate. Consequently, we have witneed a decline of civic virtue at the expense of the common… — Chris Brauns Copy Share Image
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a… — Leszek Kolakowski 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
“Intolerance of Christianity will rise to levels many of us have not believed possible in our lifetimes, and public policy will become… — John Price Copy Share Image
The dignity of the human person is a transcendent value, always recognized as such by those who sincerely search for the truth.… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There's no necessary connection between maximizing social utility or economic wealth and creating a flourishing democracy. The first does not guarantee the… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it.… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
“In light of their views on the organization of society and political economy, Westerners, especially Americans, can be separated into two basic… — Sarah Chayes 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
“First agriculture, and then industry, changed two fundamental things about the human experience. The accumulation of personal property allowed people to make… — Sebastian Junger 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
“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
“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
I'm bothered when people don't understand that they have an obligation to use their best measure of devotion, of resources, to sacrifice… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“Don’t waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people—unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
“If she pardons people because she loves them, someday someone that she loves will betray her and all of Attolia with her.… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
