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
reputation
Reputation is the road to power
ideas independence accessories
The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.
light government modest
The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.
growing-up kindness spring
We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.
suffering fruit language
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.
consistency quality utilitarianism
...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
government evil publicity
Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
thinking matter thanks
He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.
law humanity protection
Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes ...
race judging employment
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure ... There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.
ignorance law feet
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
perfection age busy
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
government branches branches-of-government
All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.
children law
Right... is the child of law.