Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case. — Jeremy Bentham Cases 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 Accessories Copy Share Image
He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right… — Jeremy Bentham Direct Copy Share Image
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts. — Jeremy Bentham Natural Copy Share Image
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good. — Jeremy Bentham Immunity Copy Share Image
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. — Jeremy Bentham Government 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
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow… — Jeremy Bentham Able 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 Breathe Copy Share Image
Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen… — Jeremy Bentham Body 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
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
“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
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
The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand — Jeremy Bentham Different Copy Share Image
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. — Jeremy Bentham Character 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
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
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about. — Jeremy Bentham Dry 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
“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
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. — Jeremy Bentham Advancing 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
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