28 Quotes About Common-good

We “bowl alone,” as sociologist Robert Putnam has put it. Yet this fails to account for a monumental shift in whom we join and for what. We still join together, but now we join for services too expensive to purchase alone—child care, the schools our children attend, recreational facilities, and security...

Doing the right thing, surrendering our short-term self-interest to serve the needs of the whole, has never been easy for humankind, but now, more than ever, that is exactly what we must do. Future generations are counting on us.

The "self," it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.

While a weak leader has a proclivity to please the critics and the leeches, a strong leader has no qualms what the enemies say about him or his style of governance, but what intrinsic benefit does his ethical and political action bring toward the highest and common good of his people.~ Danny Castillones Sillada, The Postmodern Filipino Prince: The Moral Hazard of Political Indecision

The worst crimes against people were committed on a plausible pretext for the common good

Concentrated unaccountable economic power threatens the common good.

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.

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

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