Common Good Quotes
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It's good common sense, your grace.'Mahina shook her head. 'Good sense is far from common, I fear, Tarja. — Jennifer Fallon
The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
— George Orwell
For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
— Patrick Carman
Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.
— Gifford Pinchot
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TEN [exploding]. Bright! He's a common ignorant slob. He don't even speak good English!ELEVEN [slowly]. He doesn't even speak good English. — Sherman L. Sergel
Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children,.
— Sam Brownback
He who must travel happily must travel light.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi
Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.
— James Hunter
Good doctors have at least three things in common: they know how to observe, they know how to listen, and they're very tired.
— Gregory David Roberts
if you cannot get it all right, don't get it all wrong
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
— George Bernard Shaw
Good writing just isn't that common.
— Eric Flint
I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.
— Germaine Greer
In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.
— Olympia Snowe
Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.
— Frank Spotnitz
If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.
— Mickey Spillane
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
When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
— George Santayana
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
— Adam Smith
Let every action aim solely at the common good.
— Marcus Aurelius
This contrasts sharply with the progressive view that markets must respect human dignity and serve the common good while pursuing profit.
— George Lakoff
I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
— Vince McMahon
Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
— Hack Wilson
a common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly. Ursula
— Kate Atkinson
The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
I'm just a normal guy with some good solid common sense who has zero tolerance for those with zero intelligence.
— Adam Carolla
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
— Dorothy Day
If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
— Barbara Tuchman
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
— Thomas Aquinas
Whoever gives the common people food to eat is a good person whoever lets the common people starve is a bad person.
— Hualing Nieh Engle
I know Barack Obama. And I believe that as president, he'll pursue the common good by seeking common ground rather than trying to divide us.
— Bob Casey Jr.
good common heavenly sense to my people,
— George MacDonald
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
— Woodrow Wilson
Sanchez has always heard he's a good cop, maybe even a decent man. The latter's more common than the former; power breeds abuse.
— Elizabeth Bear
The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
— Luc De Clapiers
ordinary friendships simply do not affect the common good in structured ways that could justify legal regulation.
— Sherif Girgis
What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.
— Marva Collins
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
— William Wycherley
N OTHING is done in the interest of welfare for the common good where there is money to be made.
— Anton Szandor LaVey
The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.
— Joel Miller
I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.
— Pope Francis
Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.
— John Wooden
And some of us believe in freedom of the individual over the tyranny of the common good.
— Kameron Hurley
Real reason he'd gone was the one most bad decisions have in common: it had seemed like a good idea at the time.
— Stephen King
It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
— William Shakespeare
I believe in cooperating for the common good.
— Erskine Bowles
The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.
— Sergei Lukyanenko
But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.
— Jacqueline Winspear
It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Instead of complaining about problems in your stomach, mind what goes into your stomach to cause the problems in your stomach.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!
— Madeline Zima
Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
— Harold Washington
There is no absolute right or wrong, good or evil, but there are good manners and common decency.
— K.J. Parker
To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others.
— Pearl S. Buck
Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.
— John Wooden
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
— Isabel Allende
There really is confusion out there. Finding common ground sounds good. But the reality is, a lot of people on all sides have a stake in the fight.
— Charles Haynes
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I keep praying that this faith we hold in common keeps showing up in the good things we do, and that people recognize Christ in all of it.
— Eugene H. Peterson
I believe that global common interests are a good foundation for finding solutions together.
— Vladimir Putin
Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.
— Alexander Fleming
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
— Baruch Spinoza
The boundary between good and evil are clearer for more common folks but gets blurred more and more as people get more power over their fellows.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Common sense often makes a good law.
— William O. Douglas
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.
— Robert Casey
Good luck is abnormalbad luck is common — Yarro Rai
A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.
— Susan George