#utility

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. ↗

— Doug Larson

#none #opulence #paradise #telephone #three

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. ↗

— Karl Marx

#nothing #object #utility #value #without

I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility. ↗

— Moby

#i love #idea #love #making #people

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. ↗

— Edwin Way Teale

#between #difference #plus #spider #telephone

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#believes #considerations #considers #development #fascism

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility. ↗

— J. F. Powers

#himself #precipice #suddenly #utility

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#bureaucratic #cruel #failure #futility #game

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#anything #architect #because #begin #building

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#because #cannot #catharsis #defeat #emotional

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals. ↗

— Lord Salisbury

#disappear #higher #i #myself #policeman