Jeremy Bentham Quotes
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure - they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm
Jeremy Bentham
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation
Jeremy Bentham
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual
Jeremy Bentham
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
Jeremy Bentham
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy Bentham
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
Jeremy Bentham
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
Jeremy Bentham
The principle of utility judges any action to be right by the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interests are in question... if that party be the community the happiness of the community, if a particular individual, the happiness of that individual.
Jeremy Bentham
That which has no existence cannot be destroyed that which cannot be destroyed cannot require anything to preserve it from destruction. Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense nonsense upon stilts. But this rhetorical nonsense ends in the old strain of mischievous nonsense for immediately a list of these pretended natural rights is given, and those are so expressed as to present to view legal rights. And of these rights, whatever they are, there is not, it seems, any one of which any government can, upon any occasion whatever, abrogate the smallest particle.
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