"Each person is morally obliged to regard the good of anyone else as much as his own good, except when he judges it to…"

"We have next to consider who the “all” are, whose happiness is to be taken into account. Are we to extend our concern…"

"How far we are to consider the interests of posterity when they seem to conflict with those of now-existing human bei…"

"It is in their purely physical aspect, as complex processes of corporeal change, that [physical processes] are means …"

"it is reasonable for a Utilitarian to praise any conduct more felicific in its tendency than what an average man woul…"

"Plato’s reason for claiming that the life of the Philosopher has more pleasure than that of the Sensualist is palpabl…"

"it seems scarcely extravagant to say that, amid all the profuse waste of the means of happiness which men commit, the…"

"Is it total or average happiness that we seek to make a maximum?...we foresee as possible that an increase in [popula…"

"Many religious persons think that the highest reason for doing anything is that it is God’s Will: while to others ‘Se…"

"The good of any one individual is of no more importance, from the point of view...of the Universe, than the good of a…"