Public Good Quotes

Public Good Quote of the day

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.

Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

The noblest motive is the public good.

The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with motives than with results.

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine public good with whatever energies it has left over after serving the vested political and commercial interest of its first two activities.

Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good.

The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.

As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed to do that, so we need a political process.

We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.

The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?

Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.

Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible.

Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves.

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.