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The noblest motive is the public good.
Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.
The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.
The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good.
He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful
If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.
Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible.
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air.
I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good.
What was a profitable business in one era can become a public utility and a recognized public good in the next.
I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
To me, education is not a commodity. It is a public good, essential to any society with a claim to being civilised.
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
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.
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.
I think whenever something is - whenever there's something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
It's time to put back on the agenda the importance of public ownership and public good, the value of working together collaboratively, not in competition.
The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.
When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.
So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.
The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.
Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a consideration, and their self-serving agendas prevail over common sense.
Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.
The United States is an outlier in the size and scope of its loan infrastructure; in many peer countries, higher education is seen as a public good and a college degree is low-cost or free.
I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.
I've stepped down from jobs that paid me well more than what I was working anywhere else. And each time, it was to serve the public good and to serve the young men and women of our armed services.
If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.
A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.
People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.
We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.
My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?
The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic misunderstanding: that the public good can be shepherded by private interests.
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate and render the thoughtful cynical and disengaged.
Money has always been framed as a public good, one that must be stewarded by governments, when in fact, it is a private enterprise like any other which is fueled by personal agendas, regulation, and the quest for geopolitical hegemony.
The stability of global financial markets is a public good. If governments fail to protect this public good, then those who suffer are the working people of the world whose jobs, whose homes, and whose standard of living depends on it.
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.