“If people can't make ends meet at home with food, benefits, health, and health care in particular, how can they be present, engaged, knowledge workers when they come to work?” PeopleIfsEndsHomeCareParticularBenefitsWorkersHealth CareEngagedKnowledge Workers Author:Mark T Bertolini
“If you look at Washington, you see permanently camped on the banks of the Potomac spread around in concentric circles an army representing thousands of selfish interests. The sole purpose of their presence is to plunder, by hook or crook, the public treasury for the benefit of their particular people or corporations.” PeopleIfsLooksPurposeInterestParticularBenefitsArmySpreadSelfishCirclesCorporationsSoleHookRepresentingTreasuryPlunderCrooksSelfish Interest Author:Charley Reese
“By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in the present case come to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil or unhappiness to the party who whose is considered: if that party be the community in general, then the happiness of the community; if a particular individual; then the happiness of that individual” IfsPainEvilIndividualCommunityPleasurePartyCasesObjectsProduceParticularBenefitsHappeningsAdvantagePropertyUnhappinessUtilityMischief Book:The Principles of Morals and Legislation Source: The Principles of Morals and Legislation
“I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement - they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingCertainParentWomenClassSuccessfulWifeGenerationsMovementMinesParticularBenefitsCookingFeministFedsGood FriendReapSuccessful BusinessBlahFeminist MovementGreat WifeCooking Classes Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“We should interact with legal reform tactically, knowing that it will not meet our ultimate goals but asking whether there are ways that engaging with particular reforms might benefit our work and help reduce certain harms or dangers.” WayShouldHelpingMightCertainGoalKnowingDangerParticularBenefitsUltimateAskingHarmReformEngagingUltimate Goal Author:Dean Spade
“No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.” IfsKnowsClassParticularAmountBenefitsMeddling Book:Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life Source: Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life
“You can get a coalition of senators from particular states in America, for example, who want to construct highways or dams or ports which may well be very inefficient. The taxes would be paid by the people over the whole country, but the benefits would go to the few people in those particular locations. This type of spending is a rather gross waste of resources that worsened over the years as the government has been allowed to do more particularized things.” PeopleWantYearsWellsMayHas BeensCountryStatesWholeGovernmentWould BeAmericaExampleParticularTypeTaxesWasteBenefitsResourcesPaidSpendingSenatorsLocationConstructsGrossHighwaysPortCoalitionsDams Author:James M. Buchanan
“The new [Donald Trump] administration may not want the benefit of [Dan Fried] expertise in terms of figuring out what Russia is up to with us right now but I do. I mean, we can all benefit from it as a country as we figure out what`s going on right now with this presidency and with Russia in particular.” WantMayMeanCountryTermFiguresParticularTrumpRight NowBenefitsRussiaAdministrationPresidencyExpertise Author:Rachel Maddow
“But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.” MenMadeParticularBenefitsWorshipAll ThingsSupremeEntitledSupreme Being Author:Christian Lacroix