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And what is the greatest number? Number one. -- David Hume
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people. -- George Bernard Shaw
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. -- William Dean Howells
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. -- Jeremy Bentham
That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. -- John Ruskin
The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods. -- Ezra Taft Benson
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong. -- Jeremy Bentham
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. -- John Ruskin
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. -- Jeremy Bentham
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need. -- Charles Eames
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. -- Adam Smith
But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective. -- Moby
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality. -- Mary Matalin
I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days. -- Abraham Verghese
The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best. -- John Adams
To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I try to build courses for the most enjoyment by the greatest number. -- Alister MacKenzie
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number -- William Dean Howells
Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results. -- Henri Poincare
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number. -- Abraham Lincoln
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it -- Aristotle
Of all many-sided subjects, [education] is the one which has the greatest number of sides. -- John Stuart Mill
The ideal hole (course) is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number. -- Alister MacKenzie
The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time. -- Gifford Pinchot
That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men. -- Sinclair Lewis
Under the law established by the possessor of the greatest number of devices, sickness and the sick will flourish." -- Italo Svevo
The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it -- Napoleon Hill
That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons. -- Jane Addams
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. -- Ludwig von Mises
I wear the number 10 Jersey for the US National Team in honour of the Greatest athlete I have ever seen: Messi. -- Kobe Bryant
A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people. -- Meridel Le Sueur
Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words. -- Edward Abbey
I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all. -- James Alan Gardner
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The objective is to pluck the geese in such a manner as to obtain the greatest number of feathers with the least amount of hissing. -- Jean-Baptiste Colbert
The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space. -- Edward Tufte
The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is. -- Liberty Hyde Bailey
Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run. -- Gifford Pinchot
Scheduling flexibility is the single greatest non-financial tool -- and the number-one dream-job factor -- at your disposal for winning battles in the talent wars. Use it. -- Bruce Tulgan
I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life. -- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? -- Walter Pater
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management. -- Richard Leakey
Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it. -- E. B. White
Every monarch in the world, except the Emperor of China, wears a military uniform, and bestows the greatest rewards on the man who kills the greatest number of his fellow-creatures. -- Leo Tolstoy
Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants. -- Alexander Hamilton
History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy. -- Karl Marx
Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. -- Jeremy Bentham
To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes. -- Albert Camus
The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled. -- Matthew Fontaine Maury
Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual. -- Aneurin Bevan

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