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
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As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.
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All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
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Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
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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
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The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.
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The solar industry needs stable markets. With fair and good incentives we can have solar power competitive in ten year's time.
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The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?
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As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
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The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
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It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
We are not constrained by capital, but by opportunities as we grow,
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Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
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Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.