Quotes About Common

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

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.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.

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

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.

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

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

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.

The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility

I would like the government to do all it can to mitigate, then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good, our tasks will be solved.

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

As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic.

The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred.

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

Everyone understands cards and relates to it. They have them in their homes and in their hands, so it makes them very accessible.

Leave the door open," my dad said, the second most common warning in his arsenal. Right behind, "Nash, go home.