Social Good Quotes

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  • 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.

    Frances Perkins (1934). “People at work”
  • There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

    "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)
  • 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.

    Source: scottlondon.com
  • Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

  • No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

    Philosophy   Men   Views  
  • A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

    Life   Happiness   Smile  
    Washington Irving (2015). “Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving”, p.39, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

  • I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and bandwidth for illegally downloading files.

  • 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.

    Thinking   Impact   Risk  
    Source: bigthink.com
  • We believe that business can be a tool for social good.

    Believe   Tools   Social  
  • 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?

    Nice   People   Inspire  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  • We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

  • When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

  • 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.

    "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.
  • 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

    Air   Water   Community  
    Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.63, Vintage
  • 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.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • 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.

  • Do your best with what you have where you are.

  • The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

    Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.92, Princeton University Press
  • The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

  • I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.

    William Shakespeare, Burton Raffel, Harold Bloom (2007). “Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will”, p.88, Yale University Press
  • 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.

    Looks   Lines   Return  
  • Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

    Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage
  • The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

  • Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

    Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Animal Magnetism: My Life with Creatures Great and Small”, p.21, Ballantine Books
  • The time is always right to do what is right.

    "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.
  • 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.

    Mean   Thinking   Order  
  • No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

    W. E. B. Du Bois (2011). “Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept”, p.20, Transaction Publishers
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