Utilitarians 7 Quotes

#1. The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,
the every-day world's people themselves, far transcend those inferior Transcendentalists by their own incomprehensible worldly maxims.

Herman Melville

#2. the utilitarians. They were interested only in the computer's crude and brutish ability to impose its will on the world around it.

Michael Lewis

#3. You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.

Caryl Churchill

#4. The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.

Brian Tracy

#6. Effective altruists, as we have seen, need not be utilitarians, but they share a number of moral judgments with utilitarians. In particular, they agree with utilitarians that, other things being equal, we ought to do the most good we can.

Peter Singer

#7. Utilitarianism: If we Britiash were Utilitarians we would have to believe that imprisoning the innocent and torturing suspects was justified if the Home Secretary thought it a good thing for our peace of mind.

William Donaldson

#8. Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

Gerald R. Ford

#9. If you are with someone who is awesome and having a good time, you can sit at a bus station and still have fun.

Alexander Skarsgard

#10. There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.

Boman Irani

#11. I guess I feel the same way about being a corpse. Why lie around on your back when you can do something interesting and new, something useful?

Mary Roach

#12. If we do any deed that is unconditionally good, it gives the Dark Magicians the right to do an evil deed.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#13. The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

Robert Trout