The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

- Jeremy Bentham

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

- Jeremy Bentham

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

- Jeremy Bentham

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

- Jeremy Bentham

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…

- Jeremy Bentham

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

- Jeremy Bentham

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…

- Jeremy Bentham

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

- Jeremy Bentham

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

- Jeremy Bentham