Utilitarianism/twentieth Century Developments

Famous quotes containing the words twentieth, century and/or developments:

“Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)

“The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.”
—Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.)

“I don’t wanna live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light.
Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)