Utilitarians Claim Quotes & Sayings

Think good, speak good and do good, to bring about positive change in the world. — Shari Arison

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial. — Mose Allison

Love in a night shall live and die,
Love in a day shall wing and fly;
Love in the Spring shall last an hour,
Easily fade a spring-tide flower. — Aleister Crowley

There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose. — Elizabeth Inchbald

Shall a man have nothing of his own; -- no sorrow in his heart, no care in his family, no thought in his breast so private and special to him, but that, if he happen to be a clergyman, the bishop may touch it with his thumb?'
I am not the bishop's thumb,' said Mr. Thumble — Anthony Trollope

Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician. — Hermann Hesse

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is. — Richard Russo

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense. — Justus Von Liebig