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Jeremy Bentham Quotes

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A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) ... the rarest of all human qualities is consistency  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) 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 Quotes) O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) Reputation is the road to power  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) Right... is the child of law  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) Stretching his hand out to catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, nonsense upon stilts  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) Every law is an infraction of liberty  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) N principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) I dreamt t’other night that I was a founder of a sect; of course a personage of great sanctity and importance. It was called the sect of utilitarians  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes) Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet  (Jeremy Bentham Quotes)
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