“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
If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished. — Barbara Tuchman 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
There are various ways you might define the common good, but that would be one way you could do it. — John Rawls 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
The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely… — Stephane Hessel 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
Stalin, Lenin, Marx, Mao, Pol Pot, Antifa, Castro, Che Guevara and the like use power to reduce the sanctity of the individual… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
“against war Weapons are unhappy tools, not chosen by thoughtful people, to be used only when there is no choice, and with… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of… — Pope John XXIII 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
“Our Negro problem, therefore, is not of the Negro's making. No group in our population is less responsible for its existence. But… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“In these our cowardly times, we deny the grandeur of the Universal, and assert and glorify our local Bigotries, and so we… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Courage, determination, commitment to achieve a difficult long-term goal, dedication to common good, spirit of selfless service these are no doubt noble… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
“The administrative and hierarchic aspects seem to be crucial in the evolution of belief systems. The truth is first revealed to all… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good. — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
“Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good” — Soke Behzad Ahmadi Copy Share Image
I know Barack Obama. And I believe that as president, he'll pursue the common good by seeking common ground rather than trying… — Bob Casey, Jr 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
When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish. — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“ordinary friendships simply do not affect the common good in structured ways that could justify legal regulation.” — Sherif Girgis Copy Share Image
When you have a highly divided society, it's hard to come together to make investments in the common good. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork,… — Bear Bryant Copy Share Image
When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good. — Michel Temer Copy Share Image
Our mission and task has always been to find a pragmatic balance among competing interests that will serve the greatest common good. — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good. — James Hunter Copy Share Image
To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
We need to hold accountable anyone who has misused power, and put that power to work for the common good. That includes,… — Cal Cunningham Copy Share Image
To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
