Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. — Jeremy Bentham Ignorance Copy Share Image
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. — Jeremy Bentham Government Copy Share Image
As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it… — Jeremy Bentham Censorship Copy Share Image
It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every… — Jeremy Bentham Business Copy Share Image
All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. — Jeremy Bentham Character Copy Share Image
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground,… — Jeremy Bentham Bears Copy Share Image
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that… — Jeremy Bentham Ambition Copy Share Image
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“For the same sentiment of antipathy, if implicitly deferred to, may be, and very frequently is, productive of the very worst effects.… — Jeremy Bentham Antipathy Copy Share Image
“He will repeat it boldly (for it has been said before him), truths that form the basis of political and moral science… — Jeremy Bentham Science Copy Share Image
“Where the penal provision, though established, is not conveyed to the notice of the person on whom it seems intended that it… — Jeremy Bentham Laws Copy Share Image
“What other agents then are there, which, at the same time that they are under the influence of man's direction, are susceptible… — Jeremy Bentham Animal Copy Share Image
“Ravaillac assassinated one of the best and wisest of sovereigns, at a time when a good and wise sovereign, a blessing at… — Jeremy Bentham King 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
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where… — Jeremy Bentham Censorship Copy Share Image
Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon. — Jeremy Bentham Earth Copy Share Image
“if you hate much, punish much: if you hate little, punish little: punish as you hate. If you hate not at all,… — Jeremy Bentham Crime Copy Share Image
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject… — Jeremy Bentham Belief Copy Share Image
I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering! — Jeremy Bentham Animal Copy Share Image
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual — Jeremy Bentham Community Copy Share Image
The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?' — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. — Jeremy Bentham Conspiracy Copy Share Image
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to… — Jeremy Bentham Constitution Copy Share Image
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality. — Jeremy Bentham Atheism Copy Share Image
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can… — Jeremy Bentham Animal ethics Copy Share Image
Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue. — Jeremy Bentham Evil Copy Share Image
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
