Greatest Number Quotes

52 quotes by 44 authors

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. — Jeremy Bentham
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. — Ludwig von Mises
The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to… — Elwyn Brooks White
I heard of somebody once who said he was interested in doing the greatest amount of good for the greatest number, and that the greatest… — Sterling W Sill
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
The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
And what is the greatest number? Number one. — David Hume
Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power… — Lord Acton
America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of… — Billy Graham
Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people,… — Alexander Hamilton
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words. — Edward Abbey
The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to… — James Monroe
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
Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest… — Edward Tufte
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it — Aristotle
The ideal hole (course) is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number. — Alister MacKenzie
The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it — Napoleon Hill
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number. — Abraham Lincoln

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