Barack Obama
Politician
"... the country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good."
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Greater Good
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John Green
Author, YouTuber
"If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything."
Socrates
Philosopher
"I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another."
Dave Chappelle
Comedian, Actor, Writer
"I was 23. When you're 23, your concern is not for the greater good of humanity. I didn't feel like I was unleashing an evil on society or anything. At the time, that's what I was into, and I did a movie about it."
Veronica Roth
Author
"Sometimes pain is for the greater good."
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"My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good."
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