Quotes Tagged With :utilitarian

Voluntary euthanasia occurs only when, to the best of medical knowledge, a person is suffering from an....

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds....

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can....

Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.

A week-old baby is not a rational and self-aware being, and there are many nonhuman animals whose rationality,....

My suggestion, then, is that we accord the fetus no higher moral status than we give to a nonhuman animal....

To reduce poetry to its reflections of historical events and movements would be like reducing the poet's....

The merely conscious being does not have a preference for continued life. Perhaps while having a pleasurable....

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for....