Arthur Peacocke Quotes

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.

I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

I don't mind if my future is long or short, as long as I'm doing the right thing. And as long as I behave for other people.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

Frankly, I'm not religious, but I believe in the cause of humanity - doing good work.

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

I believe in cooperating for the common good.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

I have no trouble being a good dude because that's what I am.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, 'George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.'

Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.