Top 1200 Common Good Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

I'm bothered when people don't understand that they have an obligation to use their best measure of devotion, of resources, to sacrifice for the common good.

Welcome to the brave new world of American multiculturalism. From a nation of diverse peoples united by a common culture, we have become a people divided by a common malady.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

[Donald Trump] has had the good judgment and common sense to get back with all these people, who have written the legislation already.

When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.

Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.

Heads are a good deal, and I think they would be a common feature. It's hard to think of species that don't have heads, although there are some. It's good to have a head because it puts some of the sensory organs - eyes, ears, whiskers or whatever - next to the CPU, the brain.

Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles.

Common sense needs to be more common.

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

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.

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.

It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

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.

What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?

Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.

We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew nation for the common good of all.

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Common sense is not always common practice.

We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good.

Stephen Miller did one thing: He simply recited common sense. This is a common sense immigration bill. If there was ever a piece of common sense legislation, this is it. In this case, what Stephen Miller did was nothing more than common sense, and yet it was interpreted - it went right over their heads, the White House press corps, not just Jim Acosta and Glenn Thrush. It went over all of their heads because they didn't understand what he was talking about, either because of the fog of hatred they have for Donald Trump and his administration, or they are just ignorant.

This is American leadership at its best: We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity.

As to the euro zone avant-garde, it must go towards more solidarity and integration: a common budget, a common borrowing capability, and fiscal convergence.

Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.

Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition. It has become a very strange and perhaps frightening subject from the ordinary point of view, but anyone who penetrates into it will find a veritable fairyland, a fairyland which is strange, but makes sense, if not common sense.

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

Elections should highlight principled disagreements, but they must not obscure our capacity to cooperate for the common good.

I'd beg to differ from the common perception that real-life soul mates don't make a good pair on camera.

When it all boils down, its about embracing each others stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

It is only common sense to recognize that the great bulk of Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, face many common problems and agree on a number of basic objectives.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far too common for a discussion of art. Why should art have a purpose and a use? Art shouldn't be concerned with purpose and reason and need, they say. These are improper. But from the very beginning, it seems to me, stories have indeed been meant to be enjoyed, to appeal to that part of us which enjoys good form and good shape and good sound.

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

When you voice your disagreement, begin by talking about what you have in common with the person you are arguing with. Too often we rush to judgment, race to argue, and overlook all the common ground we share.

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right. "The common good and the individual good rarely coincide..." Sure, I know, it's true. But some truths are probably worse than lies.

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

The key to - and magic of - good campaigns is when you pull people together. You unite them around a common theme.

The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it was established for the common good of all.

The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human person, male and female, is created in the image of God.

I remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible - which was unite people around the world with common interests and common tastes.

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.

All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road.

Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

Steve Fossett and I would share a common belief that it is possible and good to challenge yourself to the extreme.

No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.

That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.

Saying 'Gesundheit' doesn't really help the common cold - but its about as good as anything the doctors have come up with.

I don't plan or schedule my career thinking first I will play a common man, then a police officer, then a superhero. I love good scripts, and I don't care if I play the main part in it or not. I want to be a part of good films. That's my dream... 'Jacobinte Swargarajyam' was that film for me.