Consequentialist Ethics Quotes & Sayings

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against. — Rush Limbaugh

If you think it can be done, then go ahead with boldness. Don't listen to those who do not believe in your dreams. — Debasish Mridha

But now ... it's like when part of you stops hurting and suddenly you're yourself again, healthy and whole, and only then do you understand that you've been in pain for a while. — Cynthia Hand

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best. — Sophocles

In fact, we would know ourselves that we are not meant to be meat eaters, and we would not have allowed ourselves to become conditioned to meat eating in the first place, if the effects of meat eating were felt right away. But since heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc. usually take many years to develop, we are able to separate them from their cause (or contributing factors) and go on happily eating an animal-based diet. — Sharon Gannon

[ ... ] and every time she says the word, it breaks her heart into pieces that she has to pick up in her hands and shove back in her chest. — Rene Denfeld

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.' — Dave Parnas

What he felt mostly was a relentless, grinding dread which rumbled and thundered and made the world dark, like those spaceships in science-fiction films whose battle-scorched fuselages slid onto the screen and kept on sliding onto the screen because they were, in fact, several thousand times larger than you expected when all you could see was the nose cone. The — Mark Haddon

Few know how to be old. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There was no In-N-Out in Connecticut, because clearly that state was an inhospitable wasteland. — Morgan Matson

It's some chopped liver. That's Jewish soul food. — Redd Foxx