::“ 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 )….

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

::“ 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.

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

::“ 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.

::“ 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 .”

::“ 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.

::“ 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 ?”

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

::“ 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.

::“ 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

::“ 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 ”

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.

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

::“ involves our saying, for instance, that a world in which absolutely nothing except pleasure existed — no knowledge, no love, no enjoyment of beauty, no moral qualities — must yet be intrinsically better — better worth creating — provided only the total quantity of pleasure in it were the least bit greater, than one in which all these things existed as well as pleasure .”

::“ 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 .”

::“ 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 .’”

::“ 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.

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

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

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

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

::“ If we consider ‘ The will ’ by Kamel Selim in 1939 the beginning of Egyptian realism in cinema, so we have to admit that ‘ House-Boat No. 70 ’ by Khairy Beshara, 1982, is the start of the new realism ”

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

He even hunted elephant, although the Asian elephant is not quite as ferocious as his African cousin.

I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.

As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.

Hieronymus, like Piepsam, makes his protest quite in vain, and his rejection, though not fatal, is ridiculous and humiliating ; ;

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

Yet the attitude that the fate of the Presidency demands in such a situation is quite distinct from the simple courage that can proceed with battles to be fought, regardless of the consequences.

It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.

It has been a long time since he has seen any campaign money, and when the proposition is laid down to him as the friends of Mr. Hearst are laying it down these days he is quite likely to get aboard the Hearst bandwagon ''.

If Krutch is correct, tragedy may have quite the opposite effect.

What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.

Some accounts are quite lengthy but Florida's is the shortest of all, requiring only four paragraphs.

This mother is quite correct.

It is quite evident that the people of Western Europe are overwhelmingly opposed to participation in a nuclear war.

A special grandstand, protected by awnings from the midsummer sun of Illinois, should be erected for occupancy by honored guests, who should include the ambassadors of all those new African nations as yet not quite convinced that the United States is thoroughly civilized.

Four billion dollars of the spending increase is for defense, an expenditure necessitated by the penny-wise policies of the Eisenhhower Administration, quite apart from the recent crises in Berlin and elsewhere.

The most surprising thing about the Twenty-second Congress of the Soviet Communist Party is that it is surprising -- perhaps quite as much, in its own way, as the Twentieth Congress of 1956, which ended with that famous `` secret '' report on Stalin.

And the thing about hurt feelings, the wet bathing suit pointed out, is that the person who has them is not quite the innocent party he believes himself to be.