Quotes by : Jeremy Bentham

Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a....

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief....

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for....

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets....

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for....

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.....