Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Benthamwas an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer. He is regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth15 February 1748
animal suffering moral
A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
government belief endeavor
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
destiny pedants temples
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation
political different economics
The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand
evil impossible censorship
As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.
historical looks christianity
If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.
house liberty purpose
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 debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.
ambition mind fiction
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.
fall poetry goes-on
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
religion asceticism earth
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
atheism poison spirit
The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.
fate kingdoms turns
The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.
moving men firsts
Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.
justice soul publicity
Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.