93 Quotes by Jeremy Bentham

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Reputation is the road to power

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.

The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

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

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 ...