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common good

NOUN
  1. the good of a community

How To Use common good In A Sentence

  • All the signs are today that one of the basic problems preventing people co-operating together for the common good is the breakdown of neighbourly society.
  • We must do everything in a spirit of individual sacrifice for the common good.
  • The results of the research should be used for the common good rather than for individual profit.
  • The edict, it states, was drawn up because of the ‘critical and sorrowful situation and lack of security and to serve the common good’.
  • No longer can the lowest common denominator or the common good be allowed to hold sway. Times, Sunday Times
  • Today, a sense of the common good, while retaining a central place in Catholic thought, does not fit easily into the platform of either political party.
  • Latin American pastors in the meeting at Puebla, that in the ability to live together, "... all human beings hold the common good as fundamental, consistent with the ever more fraternal realization of common dignity which does not use some persons as tools for the benefit of others, and that all be disposed to sacrifice for some particular good ends". Adolfo Pérez Esquivel - Nobel Lecture
  • They form an unmatched nucleus of experience and knowledge of the sport in Britain and are eager to work together for the common good. Times, Sunday Times
  • Men are more interested in personal achievement and comfort than in the common good or public interest. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • He acknowledges that there is a need to humanize finance and reclaim it for the common good. The Times Literary Supplement
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