Utilitarianism: If we Britiash were Utilitarians we would…

Utilitarians are usually empiricists who think they can solve every problem by accumulating enough empirical facts. They do not realize that thinking as well…

— Allen W. Wood

“Utilitarians are often immensely conscientious people, who work for humanity and give up meat for the sake of the animals. They think this is…

— Bernard Williams

“You know, in the real world, there are people who are not actually Kantians…there are even Utilitarians.”

— Dr. Aaron Bunch

Utilitarianism is a philosophy from the olden days exploring the idea that whatever is best for the majority is the fairest.

— Sara Pascoe

Utilitarianism is inherently pragmatic - in fact, I prefer to call it "deep pragmatism." Humans have real limitations, obligations, and frailties, so the best…

— Joshua Greene

I am indeed a hedonistic utilitarian. I have defended hedonistic utilitarianism for quite a while.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must be maximizing,…

— Dale Jamieson

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

Nietzsche is absolutely correct, even more correct today than when he wrote it in Thus Spake Zarathustra: I looked all about me for human…

— Kenny Smith

“Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all; and further,…

— Karl R. Popper

“Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their 'unbeliefs.' Without unbelief, we might well…

— Gordon Stein

“All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical,…

— John Stuart Mill

The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life…

— Allan Bloom

Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used…

— Pope John Paul II

“The religion of orgasm: utilitarianism projected into sex life; efficiency versus indolence; coition reduced to an obstacle to be got past as quickly as…

— Milan Kundera