Best Quote by Sara Pascoe

To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try…

— Peter Singer

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

“Described in this way, utilitarianism has little in common with the prosaic, visionless notion of the 'merely utilitarian,' in the sense of a narrowly…

— Bart Schultz

“we live in a utilitarian age. Honour is a mediaeval conception.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

The problem I see with utilitarianism, or any form of consequentialism, is not that it gets the wrong answers to moral questions. I think…

— Allen W. Wood

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

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

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…

— John Carroll

“The ethic of autonomy is based on the idea that people are, first and foremost, autonomous individuals with wants, needs, and preferences. People should…

— Jonathan Haidt

Diligence means to be keen in matters of virtue and justice, but worldly people use diligence to solve their economic difficulties. Frugality means to…

— Zicheng Hong

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance…

— Friedrich Schiller