“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 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 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 Copy Share Image
The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from… — 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 ascertain the… — Jeremy Bentham 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 of it. — 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 to the… — Jeremy Bentham 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
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants… — Jeremy Bentham 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 of the… — 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 many a… — 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. Antipathy, therefore,… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
