Common Quote by John Rawls Download Open image “You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.” — John Rawls ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Common good Failure Ideas Liberalism Mistake Thinking
Different political views, even if they're all liberal, in the sense of supporting liberal constitutional democracy, undoubtedly have some notion of the common good… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Liberalism has become a special kind of stupid, and it's on full display now, which I think ultimately has the potential to be a… — Rush Limbaugh 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 given a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Liberalism has never been about establishing a universal standard. Liberalism is simply intellectual cover for those wanting to gain political power and increase the… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
I've always said that liberalism is one of the most gutless choices you can make. All you have to do to be acknowledged as… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Liberalism is correlated with high openness and low conscientiousness, and when you think of Lib Dems they're absent-minded professors and hippies. They're the early… — Christopher Wylie Copy Share Image
For liberalism is a delicate thing. It encompasses so much -- constitutional government, democratic elections, freedom of worship, civil rights, free trade -- that… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
If you compare the United States with Europe, my view is that what happened in Europe is that the church became deeply distrusted by… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing,… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Of course, we know that not everyone agrees with assisted suicide, but people might agree that one has the right to it, even if… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
“Luther and Calvin were as dogmatic and intolerant as the Church had been. For those who had to decide whether to become Protestant or… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Citizens can have their own grounding in their comprehensive doctrines, whatever they happen to be. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
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