Quotes Tagged With :utilitarianism

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

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

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

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

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should....

Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their....

For a merely conscious being, death is the cessation of experiences, in much the same way that birth....

Described in this way, utilitarianism has little in common with the prosaic, visionless notion of the....

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple....

A gentleman is not a pot.