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Sep 17, 2025
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?
We must reach out to villages even in scorching heat with temperature upto 44 C. We must ensure that no girl child remains illiterate. I request all the social institutions and the media world to create a joyous environment for education in the month of June (when schools re-open), an environment to encourage children to go to school. We will derive the satisfaction of having done a social good.
University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy of a nation. They should be criticizing the prioritizing of funds for military and prison expenditures over funds for higher education. And this argument should be made as a defense of education, as a crucial public good, and it should be taken seriously. But they aren't making these arguments.
When large companies take on risk, then they impose risks on the rest of the system. And these are systemic risks and these systemic risks we never used to think were really that important, but as soon as we recognize how the financial sector - the risks the financial sector takes on can impact the entire global economy, we realize that those risks needed to be controlled for the social good.
Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth.
Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink. When it is damaged, the community as a whole suffers; and when it is destroyed, societies falter and collapse
The right tends to posit that the market fuels social good. The left tends to posit that the government fuels social good. At bottom, democracy claims that citizens drive social good, but there is currently no container for a political force-field that stakes claim to the unbelievable resources now virtually untapped in every man, woman, and child in our society.
The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Participant (Productions) is the only production company in town that has a double bottom line: social good plus financial returns. It's too early to tell how our returns are going to look - though all signs are promising - but social good is what we're really after.
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
If every young person pursued their greatest passion and then said, 'What part of this can be applied to social good?' You don't have to choose between being successful and being a philanthropist.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
It has been difficult for [young people in the U.S.] to connect the dots between rising tuition costs and other assaults on their dignity with the ongoing assault on public life and its myriad democratic institutions. Today's generation faces an enormous battle in turning back the current assaults on the social state, higher education, and the social good.
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model.
Technology does more than delight, entertain and make our lives more convenient, it's also an agent for social good. That is why it's important for tech startups to stay informed about, and make a mark on, policies that impact them.
The time is always right to do what is right.
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body and soul together was an achievement, to the great present when "good" includes an agreeable, stable civilization accessible to all, the opportunity of each to develop his particular genius and the privilege of mutual usefulness.
Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
Do your best with what you have where you are.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they existed to make money, not to be charitable institutions. But in the economy of the 21st century, corporations cannot be socially responsible, if social responsibility is understood to mean sacrificing profits for the sake of some perceived social good. That's because competition has become so much more intense.