I am indeed a hedonistic utilitarian. I have defended…

What interests me is the following paradox: of how, precisely in our liberal societies, where no one can even imagine a transcendental cause for…

— Slavoj Žižek

Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular acts was…

— Dale Jamieson

Once we realise that utilitarianism comes with the idea of blameworthy rightdoing (such as when you push a big man onto the tracks in…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

Utilitarianism condones killing of innocent human beings, even murder, if it makes the world a better place.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

These theories, deontology, the moral rights theory, and utilitarianism, contradict one another. Moreover, they give conflicting (inconsistent) recommendations. It is hence not possible to…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

It is of note that even if utilitarianism has proved to be superior to deontology and the libertarian moral rights theory in the area…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden,…

— Richard Bach

You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

— Woody Allen

The American people have to think hard about their definition of the meaning of the good life, that hedonistic, materialistic society of high levels…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions…

— Jorge Luis Borges

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand…

— John Cho

It's easier to be hedonistic and just chase after whatever appeals to your senses. That's the life of an animal, you just do. It's…

— LeCrae

I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason…

— Mario Batali

I had a lot of friends that were extremely hedonistic, extremely debauched, swapping partners etc.

— Sophie Anderton

These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's…

— Robert Charles Wilson