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- Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. -- Karl Marx
- Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. -- Thomas A. Edison
- Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none. -- Doug Larson
- Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. -- Friedrich Schiller
- I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time. -- Robert Browning
- 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
- The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. -- Vannevar Bush
- Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free. -- Stan Kenton
- Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. -- Mortimer Adler
- In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before. -- Mitt Romney
- Thou shalt learn The wisdom early to discern True beauty in utility. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain. -- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. -- Marshall McLuhan
- A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility -- Haile Selassie
- Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought. -- Herman Kahn
- 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
- Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance. -- Giambattista Vico
- The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever. -- Scott McNealy
- Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness. -- John Tillotson
- Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants. -- Wilson Greatbatch
- One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of utility; and when, by its exuberance, ornament interferes with utility, it is misplaced and vulgar. -- George Mason
- [Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head. -- Warren Buffett
- That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain to look for public virtue; it is, therefore, the duty of legislators to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility, as well as the necessity, of a strict adherence to the rules of distributive justice. -- James Madison
- Utility is the true criterion of beauty. -- Max von Stephanitz
- Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it. -- David Ricardo
- Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it. -- Dennis Lindley
- Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics. -- Edward Dahlberg
- We need a new law that owners of SUVs (Sport Utility Vehicles) are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil. -- Jello Biafra
- Utility is a metaphysical concept of impregnable circularity; utility is the quality in commodities that makes individuals want to buy them, and the fact that individuals want to buy commodities shows that they have utility. -- Joan Robinson
- Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them. -- Will Rogers
- Public Utility Commission (PUC), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) complaints are rarely upheld. It is estimated that less than 5% of complaints are successful and that the actual number may be below 1% in some cases. -- Steven Magee
- Utility representatives will not show up at your door unannounced and will not ask for banking information in unsolicited phone calls. If you get a request for personal information that leaves you skeptical, contact my office and we can help determine if the call was legitimate. -- Mike Beebe
- Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time. -- Friedrich Schiller
- Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the Lug Nuts of Mutual Interest came off the Front Left Wheel of Accommodation, causing the Sport Utility Vehicle of Progress to crash into the Ditch of Despair. -- Dave Barry
- Free trade is not based on utility but on justice. -- Edmund Burke
- Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy. -- Stacy London
- The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. -- Edwin Way Teale
- Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul. -- Karl Jaspers
- I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals. -- Lord Salisbury
- We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple. -- Mark Cuban
- What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man. -- Ray Charles
- 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
- The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income. -- Peter Welch
- In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right. -- Daniel H. Pink
- If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of donating your money to the society for curing rare diseases and cute puppies. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
- The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind. -- Annie Besant
- If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale. -- Nathan Myhrvold
- History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo
- Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck. -- Patton Oswalt
- The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted. -- Gregor Mendel
- Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility? -- Sena Jeter Naslund
- Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. -- Simone de Beauvoir
- Current utility and historical origin are different subjects. -- Stephen Jay Gould
- And a utility belt! I'm like an asthmatic Batman! -- Michael Buckley
- He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility. -- J. F. Powers
- Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. -- Bill Gates
- Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior. -- Ted Malloch
- Every institution goes through three stages utility, privilege, and abuse. -- François-René de Chateaubriand
- A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion. -- George Washington
- Some people in the utility industry have called it 'circling the drain' -- Richard Kauffmann
- There's a utility in the democracy refreshing itself on an ongoing basis. -- Barack Obama
- Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures. -- James McHenry
- Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility. -- Ovid
- Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility. -- Cass McCombs
- Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action. -- Charles William Eliot
- The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology. -- Colin Angle
- Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility. -- William Shakespeare
- An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet? -- Edward J. Fraughton
- The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke -- Barbara W. Tuchman
- True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility. -- James A. Garfield
- Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle. -- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. -- Zhuangzi
- The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility. -- William Stanley Jevons
- The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. -- Mario Savio
- Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage. -- Daniel Gilbert
- Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience. -- Jaggi Vasudev
- Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility. -- William Stanley Jevons
- Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; its a privately owned space on the Internet. -- John Scalzi
- Tools may limit the user, but the utility of tools is limited by the skill of the user. -- Leonard J. V. Compagno
- The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour. -- William Stanley Jevons
- Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet. -- John Scalzi
- I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility. -- Moby
- If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it. -- Roger Scruton
- Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy. How are you dealing with your awful debility, lessened utility and loss of mobility? -- John Walter Bratton
- To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure? -- Jeremy Bentham
- Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave. -- Howard Raiffa
- Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. -- George Santayana
- Regarding wetsuits, I always liked the Marilyn Minter quote, 'Everything's better when wet,' injecting some style into sports utility, -- Cynthia Rowley
- Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery. -- C. S. Lewis
- The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility. -- Scott Adams
- My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic. -- Jamais Cascio
- My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence. -- Michael J. Saylor
- Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility. -- Olympe de Gouges
- Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position. -- Sparky Anderson
- Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them. -- David Ricardo
- You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done. -- Meredith Whitney
- I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals. -- Lord Salisbury
- We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand. -- Anne Lamott
- The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
- The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by empirical observation. -- Richard Arnold Epstein
- Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in. -- Emma Goldman
- Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life. -- Roger Scruton
- Timberland is an all-American brand focused on work, utility and the outdoors, that managed to find a place in the fashion world as well -- Pharrell Williams
- The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility -- Jonathan Mayhew
- The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility. -- Jonathan Mayhew
- For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain. -- Nir Eyal
- The long term health effects from utility company smart meters present a far greater risk to the general population than terrorism in the USA. -- Steven Magee
- Willfully polluting the ground with AC electricity is just another aspect of how the electrical utility companies will be remembered by the next generation. -- Steven Magee
- There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility. -- Karl Lehmann
- ...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required. -- Karl Marx
- Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away. -- Sean Parker
- In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for businesses. -- Hector Ruiz
- Bernoulli's real contribution was to coin a word. The word has been translated into English as "utility". It describes this subjective value people place on money. -- William Poundstone
- One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists. -- Lester Thurow
- Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to. -- Douglas Rushkoff
- In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands. -- Anthony de Jasay
- What the customer buys and considers value is never a product. It is always utility, that is, what a product or a service does for the customer. -- Peter Drucker
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