You have tremendous flexibility in defining both the greater good and the greater community. If you don't succeed in this, then you will continue to pull that heavy wagon up the mountain, and despite the fact that you are pulling it, it will somehow run over your own foot.
I want everyone to keep the property that he has acquired for himself according to the principle: benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual. But the state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property.
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
Liberty was realized when the citizens were ... willing to sacrifice their private interests for the sake of the community
It really does help everyone when there are some big bands leading the charge.
Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage.
Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
Government is a progressive instrument for the common good.
Government is instituted for the common good, for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.
Even if you don't like guns and don't want to own them, you benefit from those who do.
The end of government is the good of mankind.
Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.
Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.
What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.
I wrote 'A Mindful Nation' to promote the values of slowing down, taking care of ourselves, being kind, and helping each other. It seems to me that if we embrace these values individually, it will benefit us collectively. And our country will be a little bit better off as a result.
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these …
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.
Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.
Public interest is a very unruly horse.
I'm bothered when people don't understand that they have an obligation to use their best measure of devotion, of resources, to sacrifice for the common good.
There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more. What happens is that something is done to him for the sake of others. Talk of an overall social good covers this up.
