Aim Quote by Karl Popper

“In our opinion, there is no public good other than one that assures the citizens' private good; we judge institutions from the point of…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality…

— William Lyon Phelps

The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of…

— George Washington

The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and moral philosophers…

— John Adams

“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness…

— Aldous Huxley

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

— George Orwell

“Indeed there is a strong general cases, founded on the legitimacy of a considerable degree of egoism and self-referential altruism, and connected with what…

— J.L. Mackie

“All political ideals, that of making the people happy is perhaps the most dangerous one. It leads invariably to the attempt to impose our…

— Karl R. Popper

“If the right to happiness is not an idle piece of wishful thinking but a demand of reason, the consequences can be revolutionary.”

— Susan Neiman

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

— Aristotle

“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend…

— John Stuart Mill