Collective Good Quotes

“When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others. Though we are often taught to think of ourselves as inherently selfish, the longing to act meaningfully in our work seems just as stubborn a part of our make-up as our appetite for status or money. It is because we are meaning-focused animals rather than simply materialistic ones that we can reasonably contemplate surrendering security for a career helping to bring drinking water to rural Malawi or might quit a job in consumer goods for one in cardiac nursing, aware that when it comes to improving the human condition a well-controlled defibrillator has the edge over even the finest biscuit.

But we should be wary of restricting the idea of meaningful work too tightly, of focusing only on the doctors, the nuns of Kolkata or the Old Masters. There can be less exalted ways to contribute to the furtherance of the collective good....

....An endeavor endowed with meaning may appear meaningful only when it proceeds briskly in the hands of a restricted number of actors and therefore where particular workers can make an imaginative connection between what they have done with their working days and their impact upon others.”
― Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

“I need to be startlingly clear. This thing of finding your authentic voice, expressing your blessed weirdness and revealing your soul isn't an elegant process. You don't do it to be cool. You don't do it to get laid or get rich. It's only real when it is ruthless, relentless and inevitable. But it is also a matter of personal and collective survival. Yes, it's that important. You are that critical.”
― Jacob Nordby

“Ir katram roka jāpieliek, lai lielais darbs uz priekšu iet!”
― Rainis

“It is time for us to open our eyes. It is time for us to awaken to new possibilities and make them real. It is time for us to awaken our dormant spirituality-first as individuals, then as whole nations, and finally as the whole of humanity-and raise up our collective consciousness.

-Healing Society: A Prescription for Global Enlightenment”
― Ilchi Lee

“In order to build community we must clearly honor community and each other in meaningful ways and sharing our collective genius is the gold standard with this empowering program.”
― Iris K Barratt

“Collaboration begins with focusing on the collective good rather than personal gain.”
― Jane Ripley, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster

“Discard all shortsightedness,
Do away with all narrowmindedness.
Move high, from "my, my, my",
Be a champion of collective progress!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Socialism is nothing but an everyday, ordinary concern for society. If people philosophize it with the term socialism, that's their problem.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Scholarly debate won't do - intellectual argumentation won't do - ideological intimidation won't do. What's needed is a heart of honey primed by the steel-strong conviction of collective uplift. And I mean collective uplift - that is, the uplift of everybody -- not just the rich, white, christian, straight males - but everybody - the uplift of women, the uplift of the poor, the uplift of the colored, the uplift of the queer, the uplift of each and every person on earth, across the ignorance-induced divisions and discriminations of our prehistoric days.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination