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 speak
The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.
law medicine government
It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.
yoga vegetarianism suffering
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
happiness dry pretty-things
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
law attorney uncertainty
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
thinking animal suffering
I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!
dog horse animal
What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? 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...
pain thinking two
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 think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
winning lawyer telling-the-truth
Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.
community understanding individual
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual
pain party evil
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 case come to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil or unhappiness to the party who whose is considered: if that party be the community in general, then the happiness of the community; if a particular individual; then the happiness of that individual
stars flower men
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
animal rights hands
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 tyranny.
happiness numbers truth-is
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.