But work to which men must be driven by force ceases to be a common good precisely by the fact of such violence.
To those who consider the existence of a pond more valuable than the labour spent on it, digging it will be a common good.
Property is administered, industry is carried on, wars and feuds prosecuted for the common good.
It is the good will of Kant specifically directed toward creating a common good.
The inherent irony and tragedy of much that passes for a high kind of socialized activity is precisely that it seeks a common good by methods which forbid its being either common or a good.
Common good, our neighbour, country, friends, which is charity; the defect of which is cause of much discontent and melancholy.
By this single principle of common good, we simplify the method of natural law, and arrange its secondary precepts in such subordination as best conduces to the general end.
Bishop Butler regarded justice, veracity and regard to common good as valued in all societies.
In the simplest groups of human beings, justice, veracity and a regard to common good may be conspicuous; the claim of each man upon his fellow-man may be generally acknowledged.
We have seen that Butler viewed justice, veracity and regard to common goodas virtues accepted among men everywhere.
Well, but," I continued, "on that system there is at least one thing which we shall have to call a common Good.
Though, therefore, he may not wish to be an egoist, yet he cannot work for a common Good; and that simply because there is no common Good to work for.
If the state is the organisation of men seeking a common good, power and political position must be given to those who can forward this end.
There was no higher, more far-reaching "common good" than this to which acres prepared from Paleozoic days and consecrated of unselfish adventure could be devoted.
What it desired, the "common good," was the immediate payment of the debt incurred in the War of Independence, and the only resource was land.
It is that "common good" that is now engaging the thought of our foremost economists, natural scientists, and public men.
Here the recognition of a common good, a commonwealth in which each person has an equal worth with every other, is the only satisfactory solution.
Each must lose self in the other; both must merge themselves in devotion to a common good; or the bond becomes a fetter, and the home a prison.
When legal means are impossible but armed aggression will not benefit the common good, a rebel is guilty of the sin of sedition.
The Church has the power to make laws which will promote the common goodof the whole body and the individual good of the members (see 418).
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common good" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
