Famous quotes containing the words type, utility and/or knives:
“The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature—a type nowhere at present existing.”
—Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
“Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)