Best Jeremy Bentham Quotes
- The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by… Acquire
- We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up… All
- As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends. Censorship
- I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering! All
- Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good. Aside
- O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid… Aid
- Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes… Any
- A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk?… Animal
- Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so… Any
- Right... is the child of law. Child
- The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth. Ascertain
- Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than… Among
- Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue. Auspices
- All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so. Acknowledged
- Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it. All
- Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others. Bosom
- ...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency. All
- Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Able
- Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about. Dry
- All poetry is misrepresentation. All
- What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Insuperable
- The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. Ethics
- It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong. Good
- The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but rather, Can they suffer? Nor