All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. — Jeremy Bentham Crime Copy Share Image
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.” — Jeremy Bentham Poetry Copy Share Image
The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches. — Jeremy Bentham Atheism Copy Share Image
Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency. — Jeremy Bentham Consistency Copy Share Image
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light. — Jeremy Bentham Government Copy Share Image
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. — Jeremy Bentham Greatest number Copy Share Image
The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure? — Jeremy Bentham Character Copy Share Image
A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor… — Jeremy Bentham Animal Copy Share Image
“Hence we see the emptiness of all those rhapsodies of commonplace morality, which consist in the taking of such names as lust,… — Jeremy Bentham Character Copy Share Image
“Those which can be experienced in the present life, can of course, be no others than such as human nature in the… — Jeremy Bentham Human nature Copy Share Image
“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well… — Jeremy Bentham Corruption Copy Share Image
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out… — Jeremy Bentham Alone Copy Share Image
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who… — Jeremy Bentham Asylums Copy Share Image
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of… — Jeremy Bentham Asceticism Copy Share Image
“If a man happen to take it into his head to assassinate with his own hands, or with the sword of justice,… — Jeremy Bentham Conscience Copy Share Image
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out… — Jeremy Bentham Ethics Copy Share Image
What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse?… — Jeremy Bentham Animal Copy Share Image
“By the principle of asceticism I mean that principle, which, like the principle of utility, approves or disapproves of any action, according… — Jeremy Bentham Asceticism Copy Share Image
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their… — Jeremy Bentham Beauty Copy Share Image
An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime.If Ihad sucha right… — Jeremy Bentham Absolutes Copy Share Image
The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is,… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in… — Jeremy Bentham Advantage Copy Share Image
If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul. — Jeremy Bentham Anti christ Copy Share Image
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