Quotes by : Jeremy Bentham

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

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

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

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

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

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....

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.