Quotes of: Greatest-number Keyword

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Jeremy Bentham

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

David Hume

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

William Dean Howells

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

George Bernard Shaw

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

Francis Hutcheson

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

John Stossel No They can t

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

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

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

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 on...

Mary Matalin

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.

War and Peace

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

Ellsworth Huntington

Terry Fields: You'll always be Number One, John. You're the greatest.

American Graffiti

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

The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.

Cat Stevens

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

John Ruskin

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

I never envisioned being number one for five weeks, knocking Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men off the charts. That's the scariest thing and the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

Sir Mix-a-Lot