The Common Good Quotes
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There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.
— Franklin P. Adams
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
Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.
— Gifford Pinchot
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
— H.L. Mencken
In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.
— Joseph Addison
The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.
— Arpad Busson
Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.
— James Hunter
A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.
— Meridel Le Sueur
I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?
— Michael Moore
To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The "self," it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.
— Martha MacCullough
It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.
— Pope Francis
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
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
— Edward Young
We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up.
— Deval Patrick
Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.
— Joel Miller
The virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.
— Pamela Frankau
Death is an equall doomeTo good and bad, the common In of rest. — Edmund Spenser
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
— Walter Lippmann
The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.
— Peter DeFazio
The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
— Barbara Tuchman
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
— Thales
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
— Barbara Jordan
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
— Thomas Aquinas
There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
The goal of work is not to gain wealth and possessions, but to serve the common good and bring glory to God.
— Richard J. Foster
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
To undertake nothing: i. at random or without a purpose; ii. for any reason but the common good.
— Marcus Aurelius
Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.
— Randy Pausch
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I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.
— Joseph Priestley
In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
— Pope John Paul II
Any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.
— Alice Hegan Rice
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
— William Hague
Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.
— Alexander Fleming
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
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.
— Robert Casey
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
And some of us believe in freedom of the individual over the tyranny of the common good.
— Kameron Hurley
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
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
Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.
— John Wooden
ordinary friendships simply do not affect the common good in structured ways that could justify legal regulation.
— Sherif Girgis
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
Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
— Adam Smith
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
Instead of complaining about problems in your stomach, mind what goes into your stomach to cause the problems in your stomach.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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
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.
Let every action aim solely at the common good.
— Marcus Aurelius
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
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
This contrasts sharply with the progressive view that markets must respect human dignity and serve the common good while pursuing profit.
— George Lakoff
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
Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
