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Full Idea
If the business of politics is to make life tolerable for the greatest number, this greatest number may also determine what they understand by a tolerable life.
Gist of Idea
If we want the good life for the greatest number, we must let them decide on the good life
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 438)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.210