Greatest Good Quotes

63 quotes by 52 authors

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. — Joseph Addison
what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and… — Thomas Jefferson
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
Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty be good, they… — Richard Sibbes
The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people. — Thomas Jefferson
The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God. — Joni Eareckson Tada
A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind… — Rikki Ducornet
The greatest good that can come to anyone is forming within them an absolute certainty of themselves, and of their relationship to the Universe, forever… — Ernest Holmes
My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel… — Winston Churchill
Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil. — Plato
Who is the most favored of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures. — Muhammad
It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka aretÃ©) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do… — Socrates
If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't… — Socrates
God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is… — John Henry Newman
The greatest good on this earth is God — Francis Chan
Women should be women and not babies that need petting and correction all the time. I know we like to be appreciated but if we… — Eliza R. Snow
I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them… — James Alan Gardner
The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity. — Marshall Field

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