93 Quotes by 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.

Reputation is the road to power.

The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.

I don’t care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

Nonsense on stilts.

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.

The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand.

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness – that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

For the same sentiment of antipathy, if implicitly deferred to, may be, and very frequently is, productive of the very worst effects. Antipathy, therefore, can never be a right ground of action.