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
Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when… — Pope Francis 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
“Throughout his life Leibniz nursed essentially the same dream: the dream of recalling the multiplicity of human knowledge to a logical, metaphysical,… — Maria Rosa Antognazza Copy Share Image
“For if one Father is common to us all, and every good thing that can fall to our lot comes from Him,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an argument based on how individual cases fit… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor,… — John Adams 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
“Let us admit that some government programs and personnel are efficient and effective, and others are not. Let us acknowledge that when… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
Giving primacy to God means having the courage to say ‘no’ to evil, ‘no’ to violence, ‘no’ to oppression, to live a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“1883. ...The teaching of the Church has elaborated the principle of subsidiarity, according to which "a community of a higher order should… — Catholic Church Copy Share Image
To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“But a society in which pluralism is not undergirded by some shared values and held together by some measure of mutual trust… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Anyone can accomplish anything and rise to the challenge as long as they are willing to work with others, to let go… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
“Tolerance means to have the heart open to all differences; it is the honorable attitude of receiving another's opinion in order to… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far.… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Everything I've done feels like I'm just as much a part of it as if I was the producer. It's still the… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
We also need to find a language capable of defending government as an element of the common good, one that does not… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“exploring the middle ground between the two. Robert J. Sampson measured the level of cynicism and willingness to work for the common… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
“Freedom is more than just a willingness to live; it is a force that binds us all. Being truly free is seeing… — Phil Mitchell Copy Share Image
It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Liberals are not unconcerned with economic liberty, but they have come to believe that the common good requires that social justice be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The original Greek word "idiotes" referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused… — Jim Hightower 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
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
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
The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There is something desperately lonely about Barack Obama's universe. One gets the overwhelming sense of someone yearning for connection, for something that… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
