#utility

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #utility




Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.


Cullen Hightower


#being #compounds #dead-end #dead-end street #futility

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.


Emile M. Cioran


#exist #futility #irrational #life #most

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.


George Carlin


#been #dust #established #example #fact

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

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

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

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.


Peter Singer


#against #always #exercise #i #lying

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?


Arthur Conan Doyle


#electricity #energy #exhaustion #futility #sherlock-holmes

The wise hero must realise how terrible it will be, when all the wealth of this world lies waste, as now in various places throughout this middle-earth walls stand, blown by the wind covered with frost, the buildings storm-swept. The halls decay, their lords lie deprived of joy, the whole hearth-troop has fallen, proud by the wall. from THE WANDERER, lines 73-80


Anonymous


#beautiful-writing #destruction #futility #haunting #middle-earth

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.


Edmund Burke


#free #free trade #justice #trade #utility