Social Well-being Quotes

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it ...

The happiness of society is the end of government.

On the mathematical side, you could in principle build a society in which people were fulfilling their needs and flourishing as human beings in a higher way than in a consumer society, provided you had the right investments in the opportunity to flourish in less materialistic ways.

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?

I have spent a lot of my career working on normative political philosophy, developing the 'capabilities approach' to social justice. I have also spent a lot of my career working on the structure of the emotions, and their role in human life.

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.

Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.

The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.

We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on, namely, the happiness and satisfaction, derived to society from his intercourse and good offices.

Connections with other people affect not only the quality of our lives but also our survival.

Care work contributes enormously to the well-being of our societies and to the sustainability of our economies.

Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions.

The experience of ages demonstrates, that regularity of manners is essential to the tranquility and prosperity of societies.

Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.

Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

Between the marketplace and government there exists all of that which makes life worth living-family life, spiritual life, the art and culture that make our spirits soar.

If the gospel of Jesus Christ can be proclaimed as a theology of self-esteem, imagine the health this could generate in society!

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

The competitive instinct is what I think drives organizations and people to become better and better. It can promote change toward progress and development, which is good for everybody. It can be the motivating force behind improvement in our social well-being that is far beyond anything we might have imagined on our own.