Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative-the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom. (John Carroll)

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative-the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

John Carroll

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