Common Good Quotes

138 Common Good quotes by 104 unique authors

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good? — Michael Moore
Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good,… — Sarah Palin
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of… — Jonathan Sacks
We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home. — Jonathan Sacks
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. — Woodrow Wilson
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and… — Alberto Manguel
One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity;… — Barack Obama
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal… — Ayn Rand
The common good and the individual good rarely coincide. — Sergei Lukyanenko
Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've… — Sergei Lukyanenko
Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish. — Randy Pausch
To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness.… — BrenÃ© Brown
In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family. — Pope John Paul II
If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we… — Pope John Paul II
Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in… — Pope John Paul II
To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress of all men,… — Pope Paul VI
Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in… — William O. Douglas
Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if… — Jimmy Carter
Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for… — Bear Bryant
Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot… — Pope Francis
The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make… — Donald Wuerl
Balancing the common good with the freedom and liberty to exercise that individuality has been and remains a challenge for those committed to democracy while… — David Blunkett

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