Quotes of: Common-good Keyword

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

Edward Coke

We need to adopt a set of common values and be ready to live out those values

Fela Durotoye

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

Fred Thompson

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Horace

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

Emily Greene Balch

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

Greg Graffin

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

John Mortimer

Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

Debasish Mridha

Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.

Fred L. Turner

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Ambrose Bierce

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

H. L. Mencken

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

An Wang

Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.

Amit Kalantri

Remember, crowd doesn't care about common sense.

Amit Kalantri

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James

Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.

Wazim Shaw

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does no...

The Library at Night

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and truth, and at the same time seeing too clearly the evil and falsity of life to be capable of taking a s...

War and Peace