Believe Quote by Joan Didion

To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

— Joan Didion

“How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent…

— Amy Engel

Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

— Sheri Holman

“Higher good is like water: the good in water benefits all, and does so without contention. It rests where people dislike to be, so…

— Laozi Dao De Jing

With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.

— Herbert Spencer

“The reality is that doing good unto others actually does more good for you.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have…

— Richard Kearney

“Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can’t be punished for being good. One can’t be penalized for ability.”

— Ayn Rand

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.

— Lawrence Reed

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in…

— Anthony Trollope

“In the global picture of God’s plan for your life, the good can be the Enemy of the better. And the better is the…

— Pedro Okoro