“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
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
By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in… — Jeremy Bentham Advantage 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
“The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.” — Jeremy Bentham Poetry 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
All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so. — Jeremy Bentham Branches 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
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
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
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
Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the… — Jeremy Bentham Firsts Copy Share Image
“What is the source of this premature anxiety to establish fundamental laws? It is the old conceit of being wiser than all… — Jeremy Bentham 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
“Hence we see the emptiness of all those rhapsodies of commonplace morality, which consist in the taking of such names as lust,… — Jeremy Bentham Character 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 Copy Share Image
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their… — Jeremy Bentham Beauty Copy Share Image
The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is,… — Jeremy Bentham Causes Copy Share Image
“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 Animal - rights 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
“Ravaillac assassinated one of the best and wisest of sovereigns, at a time when a good and wise sovereign, a blessing at… — Jeremy Bentham Time Copy Share Image
“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well… — Jeremy Bentham Corruption 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 Animal ethics Copy Share Image
