Human Well-Being Quotes

For thousands of years, until about 1850, you see humans accumulating more and more power by the invention of new technologies and by new systems of organization in the economy and in politics, but you don't see any real improvement in the well-being of the average person.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Many people might wonder why conserving wildlife should be considered so important when there are wider issues of global and national interest, such as conflict and poverty to worry about. The answer is because these issues are interlinked.

Health is the greatest of human blessings.

We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

Beyond advocating for greater access to consumer markets abroad, we need to go one step further and advocate for a higher quality of life for the people who are the driving force behind them.

It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.

The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life.

Making these changes is a matter of life and death for our country, and it will give our people a chance to lead a better life.

Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.

… every new form of government, fascist, communist or our own democracy had originally for its purpose the making of a world in which people could be happy and content.

Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.

A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization.

In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.

For centuries, the interests of the state were put above those of the individual. We (Russia) were practically the last of the civilized peoples of the world to realize that the strength of the state lies in the well-being of its people.

The good of man must be the goal of the science of politics.