Top 30 Greater Good Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Greater Good Quotes from famous people such as Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, AJ Lee, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Rick Perry, Anthony Russo, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

We really can't tell the difference between people who

We really can’t tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
I think everything I’ve tried to do, whether or not it’s come off that way immediately, is for the greater good. I’ll take the jabs I need to in order to help us all in the long run.
AJ Lee
’24’ is not an anti-government show, really. We’ve always relied on Jack to fight for the greater good in his own way, and at times, ’24’ is very patriotic. For me personally, I definitely pay attention to things in a different way.
Mary Lynn Rajskub
The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.
Rick Perry
Among directing teams, you find a high percentage of brothers. You need the ability to compromise. With siblings, you’ve grown up with a pattern that, yeah, every once in a while you have to give in for the greater good, for the family collective.
Anthony Russo
In Bengal, at the state level, the Congress and Left are working with the BJP. At the national level, for the greater good, we feel we must work together in Parliament.
Mamata Banerjee
American law enforcement officers understand that race is and has been a heated issue in our country. Most appreciate the vital need for thoroughness and transparency in pursuit of the greater good in their actions and in their investigations.
David A. Clarke, Jr.
You can’t expect every idea of yours to stick or even come to fruition, you have to make sacrifices for the greater good of the team.
Black Thought
The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
Tammy Duckworth
Liberals genuinely believe that this country is about helping one another out and doing it for the greater good.
Ana Kasparian
It’s a rare opportunity when you can do something for the greater good.
Scott Borchetta
All the collaborators of storytelling, in film and television, have to be partly self-centered because they need to do their work the best they can, and that’s what makes them really good at what they do, but then they also have to be a part of the socialist society, for the greater good.
Ray McKinnon
People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good.
Dana Loesch
To believe in ‘the greater good’ is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
Joan Didion
Most of us entered journalism and joined ‘news organizations’ because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
David Shuster
We have a saying in my house, my kids and my girlfriend. We say, ‘Be your best for the greater good, and rock out wherever you are.’
Michael Franti
Everything we’ve ever done has been for artistry’s sake, and for the greater good and paying homage to those who came before us and paving the way for those who come after us.
Black Thought
Creativity for the greater good is where I aspire to be, and I mean that on several levels: of course, working with worthy causes that need support but also not just contributing to the pollution of crap advertising.
David Droga
You have tremendous flexibility in defining both the greater good and the greater community. If you don’t succeed in this, then you will continue to pull that heavy wagon up the mountain, and despite the fact that you are pulling it, it will somehow run over your own foot.
Srikumar Rao
My favorite part of the experience of serving in Congress is knowing that my time and effort are spent for the greater good and for the betterment of our nation.
Jared Polis
We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.
Abigail Disney
If you want to experience joy in your life, you have to be able to step outside yourself and become part of a cause that is much larger than you; one that brings a greater good to a greater community.
Srikumar Rao
It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.
Tom Hiddleston
If you’re a politician, you can see there might be times when, to secure the greater good, you have to take a backwards step. That is a matter of tactics.
Ken Loach
Good governance takes behavior that is negative or not helpful to the greater good of society, whether it’s polluting behaviour, plastics, or whatever, and taxes the behaviour.
Edward Burtynsky
When you have a celebrity status, people feel inspired by you people. They start to emulate what you are doing. So it inspires me as a celebrity to do something which is for greater good.
Vivek Oberoi
I like writing about people who spend their time trying to help others for the greater good. That’s what Americans are supposed to be about, right?
George Pelecanos
Once kids begin to realize that they are connected to a greater good and greater whole, then that will lessen the possibility that they will act out violently because it creates empathy.
Blase J. Cupich
Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
Maelle Gavet