Utilitarians Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Robert Trout

#5. 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

#6. The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old

Groucho Marx

#7. Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.

Valentino Rossi

#8. I think that cynicism can often be mistaken for wisdom.

Sarah Polley

#9. Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.

Bel Kaufman

#10. Come on," he said in a bored voice to the shadow. "We have to clean house first.

J.R. Ward

#11. I don't see myself as a violent guy.

Gene Hackman

#12. Only a fool gets burned twice by the same fire.

Jay Crownover

#13. Everyone had very uncreased necks, which meant no prolonged inclining of the head, which meant no reading. Linda's own neck looked like a finger, but she reassured herself that the creases were like tree rings marking her substance.

Tony Tulathimutte

#14. I've let it slide because you're new at this, but the sub doesn't get to demand to be fucked.

Lilly Black

#15. So much must I live for others, that almost I am a stranger to myself.

Pope Innocent III

#16. I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We're not whole.

Ezra Miller

#17. After the rings, the priest should just say, "Enjoy it, bing-bongs. Due to our brain's tendency toward hedonic adaptation, you won't feel quite this giddy in a few years. All right, where's the pigs in a blanket? I'm outta here.

Aziz Ansari

#18. Persistence is worth at least as much as talent. The writing life is not a series of gentle encouragements. It's more like a series of brutal kicks in the teeth. Those who grow a thick enough skin to persevere, survive. Those who do not, do not.

Gardner Dozois

#19. People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it.

Joan Jett