Common Good Quotes - Page 9

• We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power.

  Chris Hedges

  Crush, Lying, War

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• A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

  Barbara Jordan

  Responsibility, Common, Share

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

  Pope Francis

  Dedication, Noble, Common

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• If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

  George Meyer

  Lying, Future, Men

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• Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic evil of the crime of abortion. In attacking human life in its very first stages, it is also an aggression against society itself. Politicians and legislators, therefore, as servants of the common good, are duty bound to defend the fundamental right to life, the fruit of God's love.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Children, Greatest Treasure, Evil

  Pope Benedict XVI's address at a Meeting on Family and Life Issues In Latin America, w2.vatican.va. December 3, 2005.

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• Leadership is the ability to get individuals to work together for the common good and the best possible results while at the same time letting them know they did it themselves.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Together, Common

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• Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.

  William O. Douglas

  Power, Office, Desire

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• When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Humanity, Desire, World

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

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Justice, Desire, Charity

  Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Charity in Truth”, p.15, Ignatius Press

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• The imbalance results from ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to States, which are themselves charged with providing for the common good.

  Pope Francis

  Imbalance, Common, Financial

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.36, Orbis Books

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• Human life, the person is no longer perceived as a primary value to be respected and protected, especially if poor or disabled, if not yet useful - such as the unborn child - or no longer needed - such as the elderly.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Elderly, Unborn Child

  "Pope Francis, one year later -- calling us to a deeper faith" By Maureen M. Ferguson, www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2014.

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• The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of the sense of their responsibility for the realization of the common good.

  Pope Paul VI

  Responsibility, Organization, Important

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• The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Common, Individual

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• To be actively pro-life is to contribute to the renewal of society through the promotion of the common good. It is impossible to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the right to life, upon which all the other inalienable rights of individuals are founded and from which they develop.

  Pope John Paul II

  Rights, Pro Life, Impossible

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Profound, Mouths, Littles

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.243, Modern Library

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• It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

  Jimmy Carter

  Doors, Decision, Political

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

  Pope Francis

  Honesty, Integrity, Commitment

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