Top 1200 Common Good Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

Common sense often makes a good law.

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

All I can say is this: what I'm doing with children is good, solid common sense.

Hang out with those who have a common FUTURE with you; not a common past.

We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

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Make sure your intentions are not only for yourself, but also for the common good.

We need to move forward, from the common currency to the banking union to a common financial policy and, in the middle-term, to a common foreign and security policy. That will take time, because we need to figure out how to deal with those countries that don't always want a more tightly integrated European Union.

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.

The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.

Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.

For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.

Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic

The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.

I believe that global common interests are a good foundation for finding solutions together.

God does uncommon things through common people in common places.

Good governance requires working toward common ground. It isn't easy.

A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

Go get yourself stressed all the time and the common cold becomes more common.

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven.

In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.

Common sense often makes good law.

We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.

It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.

Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

It's very common business for players and management to go back and forth and try to find common ground.

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.

Fear is good and useful when it's deployed on the side of common sense.

The basic problem affecting the Pakistan today is human rights. Islamic fundamentalists have no roots among the common people and while they are pushing hard for religious fundamentalists to take hold, the common people still seek change through humanitarian and common human rights law.

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good movies that way. If the director and the composer can have this common goal and this excitement about making something great, then you're going to do something good.