Greatest Number

Famous quotes containing the words greatest number, greatest and/or number:

    The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
    Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)

    The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
    Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)