Common Good Quotes

"I would prize every invention of science made for the benefit of all."

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

Jane Addams

"What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee."

"It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

Jeremy Bentham

"The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share."

Lady Bird Johnson

"Government is instituted for the common good."

"Democracy must in essence mean the art and science of mobilizing the entire physical, economic and spiritual resources of all the various sections of the people in the service of the common good of all."

"Law is nothing else than an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community, and promulgated."

Thomas Aquinas