Bertrand Russells sätt att skriva är fantastiskt. Eller vad sägs om följande, ur den underbart ironiska essän ”The Harm that Good Men Do”:

A hundred years ago there lived a philosopher named Jeremy Bentham, who was universally recognised to be a very wicked man. I remember to this day the first time that I came across his name when I was a boy. It was in a statement by the Rev. Sydney Smith to the effect that Bentham thought people ought to make soup of their dead grandmothers. This practice appeared to me as undesirable from a culinary as from a moral point of view, and I therefore conceived a bad opinion of Bentham.

(Man uppskattar nog särskilt citatet om man är bekant med vanliga men icke övertygande former av kritik mot utilitarismen.)