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
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
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 Good Copy Share Image
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. — Jeremy Bentham Feet 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
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
Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would… — Jeremy Bentham Accounts Copy Share Image
Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and… — Jeremy Bentham Destitute 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… — Jeremy Bentham Asceticism 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 Atmosphere Copy Share Image
Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who… — Jeremy Bentham Asylums 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 Govern 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 Entering 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
“If a man happen to take it into his head to assassinate with his own hands, or with the sword of justice,… — Jeremy Bentham Conscience Copy Share Image
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out… — Jeremy Bentham Ethics Copy Share Image
“By the principle of asceticism I mean that principle, which, like the principle of utility, approves or disapproves of any action, according… — Jeremy Bentham Asceticism Copy Share Image
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others. — Jeremy Bentham Bosoms 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
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 question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?' — Jeremy Bentham Question 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
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
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. — Jeremy Bentham Government Copy Share Image
All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so. — Jeremy Bentham Branches 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 Exertion 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 Ends Copy Share Image
The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light. — 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
The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of… — Jeremy Bentham Decided 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
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. — Jeremy Bentham Greatest number Copy Share Image
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good. — Jeremy Bentham Good Copy Share Image
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. — Jeremy Bentham Able 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
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