Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jeremy Bentham
Died: 1832
Died: June 6
Human Rights Activist
Jurist
Lawyer
Merchant
Philosopher
Political Scientist
Suffragist
Gamaliel Smith
Philip Beauchamp
Happiness
Truth
Right
Measure
Number
Numbers
Greatest
Wrong
More quotes by Jeremy Bentham
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
Jeremy Bentham
As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.
Jeremy Bentham
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.
Jeremy Bentham
All punishment is mischief all punishment in itself is evil.
Jeremy Bentham
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
Jeremy Bentham
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.
Jeremy Bentham
Without publicity, no good is permanent under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
Jeremy Bentham
Reputation is the road to power
Jeremy Bentham
I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!
Jeremy Bentham
The word independence is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word dependence is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.
Jeremy Bentham
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.
Jeremy Bentham
All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.
Jeremy Bentham
The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.
Jeremy Bentham
The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.
Jeremy Bentham
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.
Jeremy Bentham
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 the word Order.
Jeremy Bentham
Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.
Jeremy Bentham
To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?
Jeremy Bentham
The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
Jeremy Bentham
Create all the happiness you are able to create remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.
Jeremy Bentham
