Utilitarian Quotes

Sometimes, in our thinking about higher education, we're too narrowly confined to a utilitarian calculus about what it's doing to the bottom line of UK plc. I wanted to make the point that higher education adds immeasurably to the value of the UK economy without necessarily obliging everybody to pursue courses that have some immediate vocational application. I wanted to stick up for medieval history, among other things, which was deprecated by Charles Clarke. - Boris Johnson

Sausalito is the gateway to Marin, with people arriving by car, by ferry and they hang out in parks where trash cans are ugly, weather-beaten with peeling paint. If we make them look like works of art, people will treat them as such. People would be encouraged to observe them as art that is also utilitarian. - Leslie Allen

Our display will demonstrate the great variety of traditions, as well as new trends, that keep quilt-making vital as an engaging craft that turns a utilitarian blanket into a piece of art. - Lucy Scott

Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure neces. - Aristotle

Naive or commercial or merely utilitarian photography is no different in kind from photography as practiced by the most gifted professionals. - Susan Sontag

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives. - Todd Gitlin

It's utilitarian meets romantic. - John Bartlett

Its superb design takes a humble but historic utilitarian structure and modernizes it. Yet it feels like it's been there the whole time. - Adrian Benepe

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair. - Charles Baudelaire