Occupation: Philosopher Birth: February 15, 1748 Death: June 6, 1832
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart..
As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends..
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about..
I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong..
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection..
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law..
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
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 t….
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet..
The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of ty….
...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency..
Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case..
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure..
Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleas….
By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in the present….
Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would f….
How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debar….
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government..
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil..
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove..