Common Good Quotes
138 quotes by 104 authors
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Make sure your intentions are not only for yourself, but also for the common good.
— Deepak Chopra
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We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
— Hillary Clinton
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Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man…
— Ayn Rand
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It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.
— Pope Francis
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Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a…
— Todd Gitlin
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Now then, if we were to go the lowest road and plaster my face on the bottle of oil and vinegar dressing just to line…
— Paul Newman
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The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples. She urges financial leaders to take…
— Pope Francis
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For her part, the Church always works for the integral development of every person. In this sense, she reiterates that the common good should not…
— Pope Francis
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The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it…
— Pope Francis
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Human life, the person is no longer perceived as a primary value to be respected and protected, especially if poor or disabled, if not yet…
— Pope Francis
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History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made…
— Karl Marx
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The Gospel calls individual Christians to live lives of honesty, integrity and concern for the common good.. to create circles of integrity.., networks of solidarity…
— Pope Francis
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
— Salvatore J. Cordileone
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Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.
— Tom G. Palmer
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We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew nation for the…
— David Ben-Gurion
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It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good. Thus will they be…
— Pope Francis
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Giving primacy to God means having the courage to say ‘no’ to evil, ‘no’ to violence, ‘no’ to oppression, to live a life in service…
— Pope Francis
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Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the…
— Cynthia McKinney
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We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of…
— Leszek Kolakowski
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Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument…
— William J. Clinton
Who Wrote These Common Good Quotes
104 authors contributed a total of 138 Common Good Quotes, led by these top contributors: