The Greatest Good For The Greatest Number Quotes

#1. Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.

Aneurin Bevan

#2. But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.

Moby

#3. As a philosophy, utilitarianism is the argument you can objectively determine what is the greatest good for the greatest number of people and we need the state to achieve that end.

Stefan Molyneux

#4. Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.

Mary Matalin

#5. Do only the greatest good, for the greatest number of people. They will do the rest.

Jessica O'Toole

#6. I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number ... Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.

James Alan Gardner

#7. The United States, after all, was founded by men of liberal sentiment who were seeking to promote the greatest good for the greatest number, by creating a constitutional order for the creation and expansion of liberty.

Douglas Massey

#8. It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

Jeremy Bentham

#9. To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. But what does the "greatest good" mean when it comes to medicine? Is it the number of lives saved? Years of life saved? Best "quality" years of life saved? Or something else?

Sheri Fink

#11. Good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all action, individual or collective, is the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

Aristotle.

#12. The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Samuel Johnson

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Adrienne Bailon

#14. For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a dictionary is absolutely passive and may legitimately be read in an infinite number of ways.

W. H. Auden

#15. If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#16. I prefer for 'my world' to have the highest certification of being a faithful representation of the exterior world.

Jesus Zamora Bonilla

#17. I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

Abraham Lincoln

#18. The threads of these thoughts trailed after her throughout the rest of the day, like loose ends on a fabric, needing to either be tied into a knot or snipped away.

Marilyn Brant

#19. I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.

Gifford Pinchot

#21. You deserve so much more than what you're allowing yourself to have.

Colleen Hoover

#22. The greatest good to the greatest number will obviously be reached when each individual of the greatest number is doing the greatest good to himself.

Rose Wilder

#23. Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run.

Gifford Pinchot

#24. I'm not suggesting anything. People get hurt every day. This matter must be cleared up, Joseph, for everybody. The greatest good of the greatest number, as you are so fond of quoting.

Robert A. Heinlein

#25. But the challenge is always the same whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest good for the greatest number which this government of the people was created to ensure.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26. The thinker as reader reads what has been written.
He wears the words he reads to look upon
Within his being ...

Wallace Stevens

#27. To be equitable, economic growth has to be sustainable. To be sustainable, economic growth has in turn to be all-inclusive. All-inclusive is no longer the greatest good of the greatest number. It is actually Sarvodaya or the rise of all. This Mahatma Gandhi saw as essential to Satyagraha itself.

Sonia Gandhi

#28. The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. That's why I drove there in the middle of February, patches of snow still on the fields. I had the strong feeling that somewhere between Sluejow, Wygwizdow, and Solec time had ground to a halt or simply evaporated or melted like a dream and no longer separated us from our childhood.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#30. A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. I had a wonderful life and was blessed with so many loving people and great friends.

James Arness

#32. To work with Ken Branagh was amazing; it was always a dream of mine to work with a man as creative and talented as that.

Josh Dallas

#33. Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.

Richard Cecil

#34. Soldier's fashion accessory is his weapon just like a jewelry for women.

Pushpa Rana

#35. I have more government than I want, more government than I need, more government than I can afford.

John Redwood

#36. A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

Meridel Le Sueur

#37. The cause of right is never lost, Leal. I've often thought the biggest damned fool in the world could to down in history as a great man if he would just consistently vote for the greatest good of the greatest number - Kilkenny

Louis L'Amour

#38. History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.

Karl Marx

#39. Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

Richard De Bury

#40. I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

J.K. Rowling

#41. One of the greatest snares is the number of good things we might do. Jesus Christ never did the good things He might have done, He did everything He ought to do because He had His eye fixed on His Father's will and He sacrificed Himself for His Father.

Oswald Chambers