::“ It is true there are cases in which, if we confine ourselves to the effects of the first order, the good will have an incontestable preponderance over the evil.

::“ We certainly cannot hope directly to compare their effects except within a limited future ; and all the arguments, which have ever been used in Ethics, and upon which we commonly act in common life, directed to shewing that one course is superior to another, are ( apart from theological dogmas ) confined to pointing out such probable immediate advantages …

::“ It is truly a whimsical supposition that, if mankind were agreed in considering utility to be the test of morality, they would remain without any agreement as to what is useful, and would take no measures for having their notions on the subject taught to the young, and enforced by law and opinion … to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing ; to pass over the intermediate generalisations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another … The proposition that happiness is the end and aim of morality, does not mean that no road ought to be laid down to that goal … Nobody argues that the art of navigation is not founded on astronomy, because sailors cannot wait to calculate the Nautical Almanack.

::“ Surely the utilitarian must admit that whatever the facts of the matter may be, it is logically possible that an ‘ unjust ’ system of punishment — e. g. a system involving collective punishments, retroactive laws and punishments, or punishments of parents and relations of the offender — may be more useful than a ‘ just ’ system of punishment ?”

::“ With the passage of the Roadless Rule, inventoried roadless areas, ‘ for better or worse, more committed to pristine wilderness, and less amendable to road development for purposes permitted by the Forest Service .’”

::“ They ’ re supposed to say, ‘ I got this student, her attendance is good, her GPA is all right — can you interview this person ?’ They ’ re not doing that ,” she said.

::“ He would dutifully scrutinize the passage, and answer: ‘ Yes ,’ ” Mr. Seidensticker wrote.

::“ The Jury believes that ‘ Traffic Light ’ deserves the award because it managed to paint with great sensitivity a nation ’ s troubles in a single night during a crowded traffic light of the city of Cairo ”

::“ It is the beginningless round of rebirths that is called the ’ Wheel of the round of rebirths ’ ( saṃsāracakka ).

::“ For all those people who have lost or misplaced something that was dear to them, as I have, never give up the dream of searching – never let go of the hope that you ’ ll find it because after all these many years, at last, my Oscar has been returned to me .”

::“ For all those people who have lost or misplaced something that was dear to them, as I have, never give up the dream of searching – never let go of the hope that you ’ ll find it because after all these many years, at last, my Oscar has been returned to me .”

::“ It is much better to kill only such you want, without wasting your powder and lead, then to be firing into God ’ s creatures in such a wicked manner .” ( Natty to Judge Marmeduke ) – Chapter III, The Slaughter of Pigeons

::“ And Michal, Saul ’ s daughter, loved David

::“ I agree with you that the right way of testing actions by their consequences, is to test them by the natural consequences of the particular action, and not by those which would follow if everyone did the same.

::“ One ought to abide by the general principles whose general inculcation is for the best ; harm is more likely to come, in actual moral situations, from questioning these rules than from sticking to them, unless the situations are very extra-ordinary ; the results of sophisticated felicific calculations are not likely, human nature and human ignorance being what they are, to lead to the greatest utility .”

::“ We are not able, at the moment, to send out envoys and Imperial troops so, in spite of their good wishes, each kingdom seek help, as they please, wherever they can, to the east, west, south, or north .”

::“ happiness, private happiness, is the proper or ultimate end of all our actions … each particular action may be said to have its proper and peculiar end …( but )….

::“ Arguments for and against God's just judgment resemble those found in Plutarch's De sera numinis vindicta ” the delays of divine vengeance “ as well as in the targumic midrash about Cain and Abel in Gen ” “ 4.

::“ Now it is evident from the nature of God, viz.

::“ Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

::“ It is quite compatible with the principle of utility to recognise the fact, that some kinds of pleasure are more desirable and more valuable than others.

::“ The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it.

::“ Utilitarian ethics makes all of us members of the same moral community.

::“ there is, from the ethical point of view, no symmetry between suffering and happiness, or between pain and pleasure … In my opinion human suffering makes a direct moral appeal, namely, the appeal for help, while there is no similar call to increase the happiness of a man who is doing well anyway.

::“ Suppose that a ruler controls a weapon capable of instantly and painlessly destroying the human race.

::“ Tanizaki wrote clear, rational sentences ,” Mr. Seidensticker wrote.

::“ I am going to ask you a rather strange question.

::“ In the traditional view, it is assumed that there exists a reality in space-time and that this reality is a given thing, all of whose aspects can be viewed or articulated at any given moment.

::“ Her Majesty is now Queen of Canada but she is the Queen of Canada because she is Queen of the United Kingdom.

After his arrest, Popitz told the Gestapo ::“ As somebody who was very familiar with conditions in the System period the Weimar Republic, my view of the Jewish question was that the Jews ought to disappear from the life of the state and the economy.

::“ Presentation of the Virgin ” takes place in front of Cathedral of Bourges, which was known to the Duke ( Longnon, Cazelles and Meiss 1969 ).

If we let them go, they won't stay away, they'll find men to ride with them and they'll be back.

If we was both armed, you wouldn't talk so tough ''.

If we have to we'll take him apart and see what he's made of ''!!

If we look at recent art we find it preoccupied with form.

If we were creating a wholly new society, we could insist that our social, political, economic and philosophic institutions foster rather than hamper man ; ;

If we want respect from ourselves or others, we will have to earn it.

If we cannot stop warfare in our own economic system, how can we expect to abolish it internationally??

If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If we grasp this opportunity to build an age of productive partnership between the less fortunate nations and those that have already achieved a high state of economic advancement, we will make brighter the outlook for a world order based upon security and freedom.

If art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.

If he's going to the St. Louis convention as a delegate we ought to know it.

If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

If we break the minister to our bit, we are buying back our own sins.