Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.
JEREMY BENTHAMIs it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.
JEREMY BENTHAMIf you hate much, punish much: if you hate little, punish little: punish as you hate. If you hate not at all, punish not at all
JEREMY BENTHAMThe quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.
JEREMY BENTHAMHappiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
JEREMY BENTHAMWithout publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
JEREMY BENTHAMEvery law is an infraction of liberty.
JEREMY BENTHAMTyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
JEREMY BENTHAMThe question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but “Can they suffer?
JEREMY BENTHAMIf then, merely out of regard to population, it were right that paederasts should be burnt alive, monks ought to be roasted alive over a slow fire.
JEREMY BENTHAMCreate 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.
JEREMY BENTHAMThe quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.
JEREMY BENTHAMNo power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
JEREMY BENTHAMThe rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
JEREMY BENTHAMBodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.
JEREMY BENTHAMReputation is the road to power
JEREMY BENTHAMStretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
JEREMY BENTHAM