Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

The object of government is the welfare of the people.

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.

All government is intended for the benefit of the people.

To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to the public weal is the purpose for which Government was instituted.

Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

The government should cultivate the view also among the propertyless classes of the population, those who are the most numerous and the least educated, that the state is not only an institution of necessity but also of welfare. By recognizable and direct advantages they must be led to look upon the state not as an agency devised solely for the protection of the better-situated classes of society but also as one serving their needs and interests.

It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

The purpose of government is to obtain the greatest quantity of human happiness.

The legitimate object of government is "to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they cannot, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves.

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

The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.

Governments are not normally concerned with the welfare of the people they govern.

There are certain domains which are so vital to the well-being of citizens that they must be kept out of the private sector and the law of supply and demand.

From day one, the mission of my government based on transparency was to improve the lives of our citizens, to eradicate their difficulties owing to poor governance, and to make sure that the benefit of public services reach the lowest strata of the society.

The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.

It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.

It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens.

A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.