John Hickenlooper Quotes

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.

Everyone thinks chiefly of his own, hardly ever of the public interest.

People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

Love of country, subordination of personal interests to the common good, concern and care for the helpless and the impoverished - these are among the lost and faded values that we seek to recover and revitalize as we commence our journey towards a better Philippines.

We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good.

Making people's lives better is not a partisan issue.

Service that benefits the community and those in need is an act that betters us all.

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

Seek a common good beyond your comfort.

Join cooperatively with one another, put aside self-interest, and take on service to the public …

In all your acts, self interest shall be cast away. Look and listen for the welfare of the whole people, and have always in view not only the present, but of the coming generations.

All government is intended for the benefit of the people.

on the ground of both humanity and self-interest…. [There will be] a benefit done to our people by giving them something to think of which isn’t material gain..

I think it's important to not just think about what you want but what's needed in the world.

I believe we have a higher responsibility to each other.

We all have some basic obligation to one another.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

I have no responsibilities but to make people's lives better.

I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.