Consequentialist Quotes

#1. In deciding among theological views, one should be something of a consequentialist: the choice of one theological position over another should be, if not actually determined, at least heavily conditioned by the fact that it implies a better ethical outcome than the alternatives.

David Novak

#2. Hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing.

Rick Riordan

#3. The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.

John Podhoretz

#4. We're going to have such fun, you and I.

J.D. Barker

#5. I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made.

Henry Van Dyke

#6. I had rather be a meteor, single, alone.'

Plus Paris itself was noisome. Even with its glittering bridges and orangeries, even if the birthplace of ballet.

'I had rather been a meteor, than a star in a crowd.

Danielle Dutton

#7. Look at me, I'm getting defensive about something that happened so many years ago, somebody said. I'll have to find out who that was and if he's still alive.

Paul Reubens

#8. Since the beginning of LearnVest, I've never left the office for food.

Alexa Von Tobel

#9. It was wearisome to contemplate that animate protoplasm, reasonable by courtesy only, shut up in a car by an incomprehensible civilization, taken somewhere, to do a vague something without aim or significance or consequence.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. It's cat food - it's for people like you!" Saladin

Gordon Korman

#11. Take a look at yourself, the mirror's revealing. If yeen got it, yeen got it the theory is brilliant.

Drake

#12. Dwarf mothers didn't handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were on stature.

Erik Bundy

#13. A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

John Jay Chapman

#14. Charity unites us to God ... There is nothing mean in charity, nothing arrogant. Charity knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord. In charity all the elect of God have been made perfect.

Pope Clement I