Henry Ford Quotes

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

The only possible alternative to being either the oppressed or the oppressor is voluntary cooperation for the greatest good of all.

You cannot just exercise your rights and get away without performing your responsibilities. Understand that it should not be about 'me' but rather 'us.'

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

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

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers yet as one hand in all things essential to mutual progress..

We are all members of one body …. The benefit of one is the benefit of all.

No longer need capitalist and worker, farmer and clerk, city and countryside, struggle to divide our bounty. By working shoulder to shoulder, together we can increase the bounty of all.

We have a stake in one another ... what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart

Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

We want to create a society that is working for us and with us - and we're working for society, not against it.

I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.