Quotes About Greater Good

#1. All the collaborators of storytelling, in film and television, have to be partly self-centered because they need to do their work the best they can, and that's what makes them really good at what they do, but then they also have to be a part of the socialist society, for the greater good.

Ray McKinnon

#2. When the chips are down, you are given
the chance to find the strength you never knew you had and put it toward the greater good. Or go over to the dark side. You know, if that's how you roll.

Jessica Lave

#3. The country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good.

Barack Obama

#4. To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity in this natural world and advocating the methods of reason, science, and democracy.

Corliss Lamont

#5. Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

Maelle Gavet

#6. Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive.

Romany Malco

#7. There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who read are a threat. They would be abreast of news that would incite them in ways we could not control. Yes, it's unfair to deprive them, but there's a greater good here that must be protected.

Sue Monk Kidd

#8. A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

Baruch Spinoza

#9. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times when we must make the choice to act for a greater good, even at risk to ourselves, but we do not lay down our lives needlessly. Each of us has only one life to live, and one life to give.

John Connolly

#10. We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

#11. The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good.

Christian D. Larson

#12. Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.

Will.i.am

#13. Each land in the world produces its own men individually bad - and, in time, other bad men who kill them for the greater good.

Emerson Hough

#14. TP53 seems to encode the greater good, like a suicide pill in the mouth of a soldier that dissolves only when it detects evidence that he is about to mutiny.

Matt Ridley

#15. A zoo is a cultural institution. Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and science. And by that token, not much of a money-making venture for the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims.

Yann Martel

#16. All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth.

Zoe Weil

#17. The height of humanity should give birth to greater good. We should be in desperation of "CHANGE" but not in spawning evil, because by doing so, humanity remains shackled.

Henry Johnson Jr

#18. Deception to a noble end, though regrettable, was sometimes necessary for a greater good. Lying for selfish reasons was the fertile dirt of immorality, from which sprouted the tendrils of evil.

Terry Goodkind

#19. I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.

Sean Patrick Flanery

#20. You have behaved in an exemplary manner until now. Even when you could have gained by doing something wrong, you refrained from doing so. You didn't fall prey to the logic of doing a small wrong for the sake of the greater good; of the ends justifying the means. That takes moral courage.

Amish Tripathi

#21. When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good.

James McGreevey

#22. Virtue is a greater good than honour; and one might perhaps accordingly suppose that virtue rather than honour is the end of the political life.

Aristotle.

#23. As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is never realized.

Jason Stearns

#24. My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.

Oprah Winfrey

#25. compliance, compliance begets tolerance, and tolerance brings peace." He flicks his ferret-like gaze across them all. "Disorder is unacceptable. The greater good depends upon all of you,

Joe Hart

#26. Policymakers usually justify these measures by using a balancing argument in which the greater good is held to outweigh the suspension of civil liberties. Even in democracies, serious threats to state authority

Clarence Augustus Martin

#27. If I do not do this thing, then it may go on and on. Nothing of the greater good comes without struggle and sacrifice in equal measure, be you man or woman, and in this way are we freed from tyranny.

Kathleen Kent

#28. It was then that Teddy realised that they were not so much warriors as sacrifices for the greater good. Birds thrown against a wall, in the hope that eventually, if there were enough birds, they would break that wall.

Kate Atkinson

#29. The world isn't black and white, good or bad. The battles that make a real difference are fought in the murky area in between, where the greater good requires brutal sacrifice. Where both the means and the ends are just shadows in a featureless gray landscape. And that was the death of my idealism.

Rachel Vincent

#30. When all else fails, you can always damn yourself with a necessary evil, for the greater good.

Simon R. Green

#31. There is something that you can do, for a greater good, for a greater cause, one that is far bigger than just yourself. Find it, and then, do it.

Kevin Abdulrahman

#32. Your life has turned out the way it has for a reason. And now, you need to unearth that purpose and use it for your own good and the greater good.

Joanne Guidoccio

#33. Leadership always benefits the greater good.

Mark Sanborn

#34. Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.

Linus Pauling

#35. For the greater good." "That has been the excuse of tyrants throughout all time.

Brandon Sanderson

#36. When some tech or design issues comes up, it annoys me but I recognize that tech and design are part of being a professional writer, so I embrace the suck for the greater good.

Mike Cernovich

#37. Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.

Sarah J. Maas

#38. You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for all of us. For the greater good. That's what our vision of shared prosperity is all about.

Richard Trumka

#39. We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.

Kevin B. Rollins

#40. We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

#41. One doesn't commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the belief that it will contribute to a greater good.

Una McCormack

#42. Riches are in fortune A greater good than wisdom is in nature.

Ben Jonson

#43. Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive.

Greg Brown

#44. A sensible way to begin a discussion of that greater good is to focus on the current conditions within the human family and on the state of the larger living world.

Robert Jensen

#45. Katrina was an extreme version of what goes on in many disasters,wherein how you behave depends on whether you think your neighbors or fellow citizens are a greater threat than the havoc wrought by a disaster or a greater good than the property in houses and stores around you.

Rebecca Solnit

#46. I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#47. Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

Sheri Holman

#48. Sometimes pain is for the greater good.

Veronica Roth

#49. What is the greater good but tyranny's chameleon?

Karen Marie Moning

#50. Every one has a level of influence that can be harnessed for greater good

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#51. However, the path of God is unknown and deep are the waters. Often do we see what is pleasing, take a sudden turn of providence, that deprives even the most Godly of their happiness. We should not fear theses changes and trust that all things work for the greater good.

Nancy B. Brewer

#52. Somewhere along the line, between the idealisms of youth and the realities of adulthood, we become pacified by our jobs; we tolerate how we hurt the world so that we can sustain our lives. At some point, blurred in the past, we traded the greater good for ourselves.

Richard Beckham II

#53. The sacrifice 'of' self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice 'for' self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#54. As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on the cover of every American magazine. She was the dazzling jewel on every movie screen, the glory of every commercial and television show.

Jill Scott

#55. Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful.

Mariane Pearl

#56. You can make a good living while serving a greater good.

Ivan Misner

#57. You make your decisions for the greater good.
But I don't know a thing about what it takes to attack an investigator or the laws of the ghoul world either. That's why I want to see it for myself before I decide what I'm going to do!

Sui Ishida

#58. The Order of the Titans had agreed with his assessment. This generation, the Order would be successful where previous generations had failed, because this time they would steal mankind's inspiration. They would kill the muses for the greater good ...
For the good of mankind.

Lisa Kessler

#59. Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is neither greater good nor evil
only people living and dying because their bodies function and then do not; that the universe is a rip.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#60. Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!

Jane Siberry

#61. There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.

Ronald Reagan

#62. God permits sin to come into human life, but only on behalf of a greater good - namely, freedom - and God overrules sin wherever it appears to threaten God's greater purpose

Thomas C. Oden

#63. We seize control FOR THE GREATER GOOD.

J.K. Rowling

#64. A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.

Tim O'Reilly

#65. I definitely believe in a greater good. I definitely believe that there's a reason each of us is here and that we've been brought here to do something. And we need to get busy doing it. And I definitely believe that there is something moving us forward that's good.

Jacqueline Woodson

#66. We have to harden our hearts and think of the greater good."
"The plan is, our exposure to her is supposed to purify us. But it seems more like her exposure to us is diminishing her.

Bill Willingham

#67. How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent person? And how do you know what the greater good really is?

Amy Engel

#68. I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

Rachel Griffiths

#69. Maybe greatness isn't about being immortal, or glorious, or popular - it's about choosing to fight for the greater good of the world, even when the world's turned its back on you.

Chris Colfer

#70. We can overcome evil with greater good.

Laura Bush

#71. I personally find the whole destiny thing to be overrated. It rarely ends well and involves extensive death and sacrifice for the greater good. None of which is really my thing.

Rhonda Sermon

#72. He died as he lived: working always for the greater good and, to his last hour, as willing to stretch out a hand to a small boy with dragon pox as he was on the day that I met him.

J.K. Rowling

#73. Let us not fail him; do not fear that he will fail you. And if some time he should fail you, it will be for a greater good. The

Teresa Of Avila

#74. '24' is not an anti-government show, really. We've always relied on Jack to fight for the greater good in his own way, and at times, '24' is very patriotic. For me personally, I definitely pay attention to things in a different way.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

#75. For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.

Johnny Vegas

#76. A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

Joseph Addison

#77. It is a prerequisite, then, for someone to trust the culture in which they work to share the values and beliefs of that culture. Without it, that employee, for example, is simply a bad fit and likely to work only for self-gain without consideration for the greater good.

Simon Sinek

#78. Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal Consequence. He'd lost the ability to determine greater good, if there was one; his mortal soul he'd given up on long ago. And as for eternal consequence - he was its embodiment.

Janet Morris

#79. Do unto others as you'd have KARMA do unto you! Stop thinking in terms of "What's in it for me?" and more in terms of "What's in it for the greater good?"!

Tanya Masse

#80. People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.

Mike Krzyzewski

#81. When we have specific interests or purposes, can we leverage this tsunami of multimedia to our own individual aims and for the greater good of all?

Mark T. Maybury

#82. I'm a very truthful person, but if the greater good is best served by a lie then I'll tell it.

Karina Bliss

#83. We should never judge anyone; a 'wicked' action which we may see as 'evil', may be necessary for the greater good. Where would the story of Christ be without Judas? His actions were ultimately good; a part of the plan.

Robert S. Jepson Jr.

#84. A compassionate way of life rooted in oneness and connectivity not only impacts your greater good, but it resonates out into the world, positively impacting the greater good for all.

Amy Miller

#85. Money, fame, class, and titles are just symbols, or opportunities, for making a difference. Real power means enhancing the greater good, and your feelings of power will direct you to the exact way you are best equipped to do this.

Dacher Keltner

#86. Collective responsibility, a sense of the greater good versus just one's own good, and a strong set of collective values are imperative for improving society. These are the aims of all these pieces about our society.

Chetan Bhagat

#87. Couples who have been together for a long time say the key to staying together is to work as a team toward the greater good, tolerating some tough (even tragic) times to grow together and work toward a mature kind of union.

Amy Dickinson

#88. Sometimes you've got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've got to think about the greater good!

J.K. Rowling

#89. As your understanding of life continues to grow, you can walk upon this planet safe and secure, always moving forward toward your greater good.

Louise Hay

#90. The truth is that there are no heroes. We're all villains excusing our actions by hiding behind a greater good.

Rachel Bach

#91. Frequently we hold on so tightly to the good that we do know that we cannot receive the greater good that we do not know.

Richard J. Foster

#92. By going with him, I would have simply imposed myself on him; I would have been a distraction. I helped him follow his heart and his greater good.

Kavita Kane

#93. What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else? -Plain Truth

Jodi Picoult

#94. I authored the Universal National Service Act because I believe that everyone in America should contribute to the greater good of America.

Charles B. Rangel

#95. I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

Socrates

#96. It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

Hunter S. Thompson

#97. Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

Douglas B. Reeves

#98. Because, sometimes you've got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've got to think about the greater good! This is war!

J.K. Rowling

#99. If I gun down my boss in the carpark after work then he won't be able to terrorise all his other employees and the greater good will have been served.

Rushworth M Kidder

#100. The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

Rick Perry