Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
JEREMY BENTHAMHappiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
JEREMY BENTHAMThe question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but “Can they suffer?
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 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 BENTHAMWithout publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
JEREMY BENTHAMThe rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
JEREMY BENTHAMTyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
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 BENTHAMProse is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
JEREMY BENTHAMIs it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.
JEREMY BENTHAMhappy life and merciful death
JEREMY BENTHAMThe quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.
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 BENTHAMReputation is the road to power
JEREMY BENTHAMNature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
JEREMY BENTHAMStretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
JEREMY BENTHAM