The problem I see with utilitarianism, or any form of consequentialism, is not that it gets the wrong answers to moral questions.… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Another pitfall: Utilitarianism is interested only in making the majority of people happy. It is concerned with the happiness of the many,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Utilitarianism: If we Britiash were Utilitarians we would have to believe that imprisoning the innocent and torturing suspects was justified if the… — William Donaldson Copy Share Image
“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all;… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
These theories, deontology, the moral rights theory, and utilitarianism, contradict one another. Moreover, they give conflicting (inconsistent) recommendations. It is hence not… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Nietzsche is absolutely correct, even more correct today than when he wrote it in Thus Spake Zarathustra: I looked all about me… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“To have understood the polymorphous character of pleasure and happiness is of course to have rendered those concepts useless for utilitarian purposes;… — Alasdair C. MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“When we say that humans have a “right” not to be used for these purposes, this means simply that the interest of… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
“Divine worship means the same thing where time is concerned, as the temple where space is concerned. "Temple" means... that a particular… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“In another building, I was shown his [Mr Brunel's] manufactory of shoes, which, like the other, is full of ingenuity, and, in… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
“One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wrong to inflict “unnecessary”… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
“That a feeling is bestowed on us by Nature, does not necessarily legitimate all its promptings. The feeling of justice might be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
![“Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and…” quote by John Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b69/john-carroll-16284_bourgeois_utilitarianism-had-found-in-samuel-smile_1733275.jpg)
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