Hirohito Quotes

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.

If they think its such a sacrifice to go into public service, then they should stay the heck out.

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

It's time to put back on the agenda the importance of public ownership and public good, the value of working together collaboratively, not in competition.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

I believe in cooperating for the common good.

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

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

We too often prefer the individual thrill to collective responsibility.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and trustees are created for the benefit of the public.

Bring back that better era of the republic in which, when men consecrated themselves to the public service, they utterly abnegated all selfish purposes.

Government is just people acting on behalf of others rather than acting on behalf of themselves.

Those who do not serve the public interest should not hold a public license.

We are here to serve our citizens and not our ambitions.

We must take man as we find him, and if we expect him to serve the public we must interest his passions in doing so.

Serve a cause greater than your self interest.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.

… men who are governed by self-interest will combine, whether white or black, and the generous and selfless will similarly unite

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.

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

True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

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.