What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as more conversable animal,… — 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
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
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
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
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share
Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share
