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"In a co-operative industrial association, is it just or not that talent or skill should give a title to superior remuneration?" (p. 75)
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"We do not call anything wrong, unless we mean to imply that a person ought to be punished in some way or other for doing it; if not by law, by the opinion of his fellow creatures; if not by opinion, by the reproaches of his own conscience." (p. 64)
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"Will is the child of desire, and passes out of the dominion of its parent only to come under that of habit." (p. 53)
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"We not uncommonly hear the doctrine of utility inveighed against as a godless doctrine." (p. 29)
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"The main constituents of a satisfied life appear to be two, either of which by itself is often found sufficient for the purpose: tranquillity, and excitement." (p. 18)
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"Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away if the occupations to which their position in life has devoted them, and the society into which it has thrown them, are not favourable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise." (p. 15)
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"Utilitarians have been vocal opponents of the view that the "purpose" of sex is procreation, and hence it should be restricted to heterosexual marriage. Here again contemporary utilitarians are following Bentham, who wrote in favor of "all-comprehensive liberty for all modes of sexual gratification" and argued against the criminalization of homosexual acts." (p. xxix)
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"On the negative side of the question it is argued, that whoever does the best he can, deserves equally well, and ought not in justice to be put in a position of inferiority for no fault of his own; that superior abilities have already advantages more than enough, in the admiration they excite, the personal influence they command, and the internal sources of satisfaction attending them, without adding to these a superior share of the world's goods; and that society is bound in justice rather to make compensation to the less favoured, for this unmerited inequality of advantages, than to aggravate it. On the contrary side it is contended, that society receives more from the more efficient labourer; that his services being more useful, society owes him a larger return for them; that a greater share of the joint result is actually his work, and not to allow his claim to it is a kind of robbery; that if he is only to receive as much as others, he can only be justly required to produce as much, and to give a smaller amount of time and exertion, proportioned to his superior efficiency." (p. 75-76)
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