Ken Loach Quotes

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

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

Politics is the art of providing for the general welfare. It's the great human cooperative institution. It, in principle, is not competitive. It's an attempt of a community of people to get together in order to solve their problems …

I believe in cooperating for the common good.

Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

The only public good is that which assures the private good of the citizens.

We need property dedicated to the general benefit in addition to that intended for private use.

The public interest is more than the sum total of the interest groups.

We need government to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves.

Private interests must be made subservient to the general interests of the community

…mortals cannot cherish what is private without injury to the community…to the extent that we call anything our own it absorbs our affections and diverts them from the service of the common good.

That’s the function of government—to do for people what they cannot do for themselves.

We have to be guided by the interest of society and the development of the state.

Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should be adopted and adhered to with fidelity.

Politics, for me, is not a competition to see who's got the bigger ego. It's working together for the good of the people.

Liberals genuinely believe that this country is about helping one another out and doing it for the greater good.

I don't see any reason why society can't function well when people come together in the common interest under our system. In fact that's what the Big Society is all about!

In the back of my mind, always, is the firmly held belief that public policies must serve the long-term interests and well-being of the community at large.

Defining of the public interest is always very, very difficult.

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

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.

We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.

How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.