“An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.” IfsActionGoodnessConsequenceBe GoodAgentsMotive Author:Immanuel Kant
“Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed by any, save those who out of their own human selfishness construct the attributes of Divinity, to be absorbed throughout eternity in the contemplation of His own ineffable bliss, were it not identical with His ineffable goodness and love.” HumansMeanEndsGoodnessConsequenceAnd LoveEternitySelfishnessBlissContemplationDivinityAttributesConstructsIdenticalOmnipotentIneffable Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.” VirtueGoodnessConsequence Author:Dale Jamieson
“It's obvious that there are vast variety of consequentialist views, depending on what we think goodness consists in, what our notion of consequence is, and what level (or levels) of human action we think the principle should be applied.” ThinkingShouldHumansActionLevelsViewsPrinciplesGoodnessConsequenceNotionObviousVarietyHuman Actions Author:Dale Jamieson