93 Quotes by Jeremy Bentham

By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in the present case come to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil or unhappiness to the party who whose is considered: if that party be the community in general, then the happiness of the community; if a particular individual; then the happiness of that individual

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

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.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

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...

Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They’ll do anything to win a case.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense – nonsense upon stilts.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.