Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

The supreme inspiration is the common weal.

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

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

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

All government is intended for the benefit of the people.

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

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

Public interest is a very unruly horse.

Real politics should work for the long-term and overall interests of the community.

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.

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.

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.

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

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.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

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

The happiness of society is the end of government.

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

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

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

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

The good of the people is the chief law.

I will ever prefer the weal of the public and of the whole commonwealth, in making of good laws and constitutions, to any particular and private ends of mine

The public interest is not defined as what is interesting to the public.