Action Quote by Dale Jamieson

Consequentialist theories pretend that we can set some great big ends (the general happiness, human flourishing), provide ourselves with definite enough conceptions of them…

— Allen W. Wood

Consequentialist theories begin with a very simple and undoubtedly valid point: Every action aims at a future end, and is seen as a means…

— Allen W. Wood

When consequentialist theories are developed in terms of an equally shallow psychology of the good - such as a crude form of hedonism -…

— Allen W. Wood

Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are negative consequences…

— Stephen Covey

What most forms of Consequentialism cannot do is require us to act in such a way as to make the world worse, yet many…

— Dale Jamieson

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

— Honore de Balzac

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

I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of them, and…

— Stephen Covey

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

— Noam Chomsky

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense…

— Walter Lippmann

Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.

— Charlotte Bronte

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

— Stephen Covey