Srikumar Rao Quotes

There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more. What happens is that something is done to him for the sake of others. Talk of an overall social good covers this up.

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.

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

For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.

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.

There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives.

Make sure your intentions are not only for yourself, but also for the common good.

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

I'm trying to set a good example. I don't need to take a high salary, which would impede the success of Morningstar.

I believe in cooperating for the common good.

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

People should only profit to the extent they make other peoples lives better.

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.

I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can.

If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.

One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.

He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring.

The idea of giving up something small for yourself to gain something big for all is not new, but putting that ancient idea into practice is the central necessity of our new age.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community...Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own

We must learn for the sake of one another to make better choices guided by more holistic measures of the common good we share.

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