- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Common Good Quotes
Service, faith, and wealth weighed against each other.
These quotes treat the common good as something that competes with narrower interests, whether market forces, personal wealth, or untapped faith. One speaker calls working for the common good the greatest creed, above any higher Freedom or religion.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
- Compatible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stalin, Lenin, Marx, Mao, Pol Pot, Antifa, Castro, Che Guevara and the like use power to reduce the sanctity of the individual for the common good of the collective. It is a kind of enslavement that degrades the human spirit and makes us poorer over time.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.
- Evaluate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For Christians, faith is a precious good, the most valuable personal and social resource. When it is left untapped, the common good suffers - not just the particular interests of Christians.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.
- Co-Operation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020