Public good Quotes · Page 2

“The public good must come before private interests.”

— Bryant McGill

Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.

— Jill Lepore

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

— George Washington

I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good.

— Elon Musk

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

— Charles Krauthammer

“For the consequences of brave actions are only temporary, while whatever is committed to writing for public good is of lasting benefit.”

— Flavius Vegetius Renatus

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

— Nathan Hale

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

— Sheena Iyengar

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

— Anita Roddick

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

— John Wilbanks

“Do not suffer your good nature [...] to say yes when you ought to say no; remember that it is a public…

— George Washington

It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body…

— James Madison

An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of…

— Alexander Hamilton

If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just…

— P. J. O'Rourke

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services,…

— Tom Peters

The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems…

— Eugene Jarecki

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our…

— James Bovard

Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person…

— Plutarch

“There are seemingly parallel origins of Nature’s God in America and China’s Mandate of Heaven. These twin concepts created socio-political forces for…

— Patrick Mendis

Alliances are crucial to success in the political sphere. However, if we are to approach other organizations to propose alliances for the…

— Arthur Curley

Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but…

— Thomas Jefferson

The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert…

— John Ralston Saul

The demise of higher education as a public good is also evident in light of the election of a number of right-wing…

— Henry Giroux

Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public…

— James Madison

Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate…

— James K. Polk

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being... Almighty God would mercifully…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— William Blackstone

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What was a profitable business in one era can become a public utility and a recognized public good in the next.

— Andrew Yang

To me, education is not a commodity. It is a public good, essential to any society with a claim to being civilised.

— John McDonnell

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

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I think whenever something is - whenever there's something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form…

— Elon Musk

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Thornton Wilder

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

— Joel Bakan

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

— George Will

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves…

— Anonymous

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

— Tacitus

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

— John F. Kennedy