Collective Interest Quotes

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Individual interests now trump any consideration of the good of society just as all problems are ultimately laid at the door of the solitary individual, whose fate is shaped by forces far beyond his or her capacity for personal responsibility.

Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.

The right to private property is valid, but all private property is under a "social mortgage.

The motherland is the common mother, the unity within which isolated the individuals penetrate and become enmeshed. It is the holy name that expresses the voluntary fusion of all interests into one interest, of all lives into one lasting and perpetual life.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

Earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!

The wisdom of the few may be the light of mankind, but the interest of the few is not the profit of mankind, nor of a commonwealth.

[A party is] ... a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle on which they are all agreed.

Government is not a warfare of interests.

All government is intended for the benefit of the people.

The common good may sometimes demand that the right to own be limited by public involvement in the planning or ownership of certain sectors of the economy.

It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.

At the end of the day, we have obviously our own political realities that will not allow us to approve something that is not in the benefit of everybody.

Everton Football Club is more important than the individual.

I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.

Public before private and country before family.

I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.

There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. From this it becomes clear that "my" interest and "your" interest are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge.

Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good ... it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

We must always give preference to the collective. We have to play as Brazil. Nobody is a lone protagonist.