Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. Jeremy Bentham More Quotes by Jeremy Bentham More Quotes From Jeremy Bentham Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon. Jeremy Bentham earth men moving All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so. Jeremy Bentham branches-of-government branches government The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer. Jeremy Bentham speak suffering animal Right... is the child of law. Jeremy Bentham law children All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. Jeremy Bentham punishment mischief evil 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 atmosphere government order Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means. Jeremy Bentham pace want mean The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell. Jeremy Bentham asceticism earth religion 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 pedants destiny math If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul. Jeremy Bentham historical christianity looks Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity. Jeremy Bentham spurs soul justice Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. Jeremy Bentham anarchy tyrants tyranny All poetry is misrepresentation. Jeremy Bentham misrepresentation poetry-is poetry [I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency. Jeremy Bentham consistency track practice 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 ambition mind fiction An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime.If Ihad sucha right over thestick Iamaboutto cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion. Jeremy Bentham cutting idols would-be No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. Jeremy Bentham atheism government belief Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God. Jeremy Bentham wiser difficulty would-be The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand Jeremy Bentham economics political different Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. Jeremy Bentham foundation numbers happiness
