Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. — Jeremy Bentham 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 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
[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 Copy Share Image
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. — Jeremy Bentham 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
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out… — Jeremy Bentham Alone 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 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
“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
“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
Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around… — Jeremy Bentham 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
He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right… — Jeremy Bentham 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 King 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
“Where the penal provision, though established, is not conveyed to the notice of the person on whom it seems intended that it… — Jeremy Bentham Laws 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 Copy Share Image
Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue. — Jeremy Bentham Evil Copy Share Image
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from… — 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… — Jeremy Bentham Constitution Copy Share Image
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality. — Jeremy Bentham Atheism 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 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
The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand — 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
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. — Jeremy Bentham Conspiracy Copy Share Image
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others. — Jeremy Bentham 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
Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would… — Jeremy Bentham 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
“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
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
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 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
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