A Quote by Aristotle

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it

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Aristotle
Greek - Philosopher
384 BC - 322 BC

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

Aristotle

I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

Charles Dickens

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 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

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

I heard of somebody once who said he was interested in doing the greatest amount of good for the greatest number, and that the greatest number was number one. That was himself. That may sound like a little bit of selfishness, but if that is selfishness, at least it is a very intelligent selfishness. Everyone has a right to be interested in himself, and I am confident that God wants us to be interested in ourselves first; that is, the first soul that anyone should bring to God should be his own soul.

Sterling W Sill

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

Aristotle

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

In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which aid and defend one another, it will have been increased through natural selection; for those communities, which included the greatest number of the most sympathetic members, would flourish best, and rear the greatest number of offspring.

Charles Darwin

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.

Henri Poincare

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

Jeremy Bentham

The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.

Ezra Taft Benson

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

Abraham Lincoln

Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure.

James Mill

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